Enough of you knew my plans for yesterday and have emailed asking how things went that I thought I should just report here to let you all know that I flew a TeleMega (formerly MegaMetrum) v0.3 prototype for the first time yesterday at Tripoli Colorado's research launch at the buffalo ranch near Hartsel, CO. The board flew "solo" in my 98mm test-mule "Trick-o-Treat" on a CTI J600 red motor.
It was a textbook-perfect dual deploy, and the data from the u-blox GPS
looks great! We haven't studied all the sensor data yet, but so far I'm
*very* happy with the performance of this board version.
The wind came up making it unsafe to attempt a complex flight in the
airframe I threw together to try some air-starts, but we'll be at the
NAR National Sport Launch all of next weekend and hope to fly more tests
there.
http://altusmetrum.org/TeleMega
I also wanted to note that using TeleBT on a 3-element Arrow yagi along
with my Galaxy S2 phone running the latest released AltosDroid from the
Google Play store was huge fun! We used it even though we didn't need
to during the (short) recovery walk and were pleased to note the
airframe was within 2 meters of where the phone's GPS said it should
be... TeleBT is in stock for shipment now, even though we haven't really
officially announced it yet pending release of AltOS version 1.2. Kudos
to Mike Beattie for his work on AltosDroid... there's lots more it could
do, but the current version is already pretty awesome!
http://altusmetrum.org/TeleBT
Bdale
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