Dr. Ramsey’sSummer Research

Project

Summer 2013

With: Ian Egland and Brian Zohorsky

Engineer payload and receiving system

Project “Dream”

http://dream.ianegland.name/blog/ http://dream.ianegland.name/wiki/

Contribute collected meteorological data

Goals

Weather BalloonsLimitations• Weight• Power• Temperatu

re• Safety• Legal

Payload

Microcontrollers• Arduino Uno• Arduino Due• Raspberry Pi

PayloadSensors• GPS• Barometer• Hygrometer• Thermometer• HD Camera

Receiving System

Amateur Radio• Automatic Packet Reporting System (APRS)• Polarization

• Quadrifiliar Helix Antenna• Amateur Television

• Fast Scan TV• Slow Scan TV

Receiving System

Publishing• On Web

• Virtual Private Server (VPS)• On Mobile

• Android• NOAA’s National Climactic Data

Center

Expectations• Retrieve position,

temperature, barometric pressure, and humidity from a helium-filled weather balloon at altitudes exceeding 100,000 feet, in as close to real time as possible.

• Record HD video of the journey.

• Make collected data available to the meteorological community.

Future Work• Lower cost• Extended Flight Time• Alternate Power Sources

• Solar Cells• More Electronics Projects

• CubeSat• Lab Monitoring• Home Automation

Thanks for your time.