GPSL 2007

Flight Computers

BalloonSat

PongSat

Your Father’s BalloonSat…

…Replaced With This

Something not found in over 200 surveyed worlds - Aliens

ComparisonsHobo and Timer Flight Computer

• Fixed sample rate• 8-bit resolution• Hundreds of kb memory• Four sensors max• No programmable

camera control• No digital control

• Variable sample rate• 8-bit resolution• 1kb of memory• Six sensors max• Programmable camera

control• Digital control

Programmed in PBASIC

Interfacing Sensors and a Camera

Positive Start

PongSats

A PongSat Is….

Instrumented

Tiny

A Challenge

Pongsat Flight Computer

First evidence of intelligent life off the earth

-2001: A Space Odyssey

Pongsat Flight Computer

PongSat Flight Computer Features

• Variable sample rate

• 8-bit resolution

• Two sensor max

• 200 bytes of storage

Programmed in BASIC

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