Project Purpose
Mission – Why the project is important
- There are many students who wish to learn more about building things in the world and they need many varieties and examples of the actual engineering workflow and processes.
Vision – What we want the project to accomplish
- To provide complete easy to understand and complete information for students to design, acquire and assemble components and software to build a working compact video/parametric recording device.
Goals – What the project will produce
- A series of videos that document parts acquisition, prototyping, assembly, shakedown and testing of a working device that contains video and measurement recording components.
- On line ready CAD plans for a device enclosure.
- Suggestions for online CAD build services.
- Description and demonstration of Arduino controllers for device components.
- Build of a flight ready balloon device.
Tasks Do
- Joe: Produce portable CAD file with design of Mini Cube Enclosure
- Joe: Port CAD file to TinkerCad
- Michael: Determine if Google has adequate collaboration tools and if there’s a non-profit discount.
- All: Determine public name of this balloon device project, branding, contact information, you tube channel location
- All: Determine functions, measurements and data recording in the device
Tasks Done
- Ed: Create SacL5 Tracking page
- Ed: Acquire basic Arduino Project Kit
- Ed: Acquire Arduino design software
- Ed: Write a working Arduino control program
- Ed: Build some working mechanism w Arduino
- Ed: Create Video demonstrating an Arduino build for a physical measurement, See Measuring Temperature
SacL5 Meeting 3/8/25
Mission – Why We Exist Help enthusiasts find ways to contribute. Provide sources of enabling training to facilitate engineering prototyping. Establish a clearinghouse for the
Arduino Elegoo Mega R3 Kit – Measuring Temperature
This video demonstrates an Arduino build to measure temperature. The build uses parts, the Arduino IDE code editor, and software from the $64 Arduino Elegoo
Arduino Builds
Arduino is an open-source electronics platform based on easy-to-use hardware and software. It’s intended for anyone making interactive projects. This page tracks the acquisition, tutorials
SacL5 Meeting 2/15/25
Meeting Details for each Months Meeting Website: https://sacramentol5society.nss.org Meeting Call: Sacramento L5 Society, Local Chapter, National Space Society Where: Virtual presence only, via Zoom When: Second