MAVRK Into Near Space - Blog

I have been working on this project again for almost a week. I think that it is coming together quite well. Here is a photograph of parts that are working and parts that are still in development. These are almost all the parts that are currently...

CHDK stands for Canon Hack Development Kit and it is a tool that allows you to add much more functionality and control to your Canon camera. The way that it works is that you write their software to your SD card before using it in your camera. When starting...

I decided to provide a system overview of the avionics. Here is a picture (this picture may also be found in the files section). First let me mention that this an early design configuration, this may change over time. First the cameras will not...

Today I received a Garmin 18 LVC GPS module in the mail. I ordered it through Ebay after an unsuccessful attempt at ordering it from Amazon. This product is hard to get because it has gone obsolete. It is replaced by GPS modules that are not too friendly...

I will try to go into a little more detail here about this project than was outlined in the project proposal. First why did I choose this project. I think that to put something together that can travel into near space - or really almost out of this...