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New Balua Launch in Tondela
Balua is launching another balloon, this time with Escola Secundária de Tondela. This event will occur this Monday (June, 4th) in Tondela, at 11:00 GMT. Here is the launch information: It will be broadcasting APRS (144.800MHz) with callsign CS5PBA-11. You can follow us here; Spot – http://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp?glId=0pudMOB0YE0vYmVWmZebNMUqsjCy7Rvsj
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SALESIANOS LAUNCH
Balua is launching another balloon, this time with Salesianos do Estoril. The objective of this launch is to send a school project to near space. This event will occur this Tuesday (March, 28th) in Estoril, at 10:00 GMT. Here is the launch information: It will be broadcasting APRS (144.800MHz) with callsign CS5PBA-11. You can follow us here; Spot-http://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp?glId=0pudMOB0YE0vYmVWmZebNMUqsjCy7Rvsj
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Balua Tracker V2.0
Design, layout and routing is finished, what a fantastic outcome!! Balua’s All In One Tracker second iteration is now on it’s way to the fab house (this time we’re going to try oshpark). The overhaul PCB are has decreased 34% from 55*100mm to 55*60 mm while keeping all the features and adding a huge cutoff Fet, more…
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New tracker PCB in detail
This is the first time we go all the way down the road, from the breadboard to the final PCB small production run. This article shares some pictures of the process we went thru to get our custom tracker! Well, it all starts with a layout form Eagle (this one is available form our GitHub…
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New Tracker launch – Video
Here is the Video of our New Tracker launch, the new tracker and cross band repeater first flight test. Big Thanks to LARS for this great video and support during this mission!
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Tracker Launch wrap up – Success
Yesterday was an awesome day for Us! 1º – Our new tracker worked flawlessly during the flight (aside not reaching any igate except our chasing car during a very fast descent!) 2º – The very experimental cross-band repeater almost reached the entire Iberian peninsula and was very busy with QSOs from Cascais(PT), Algarve (PT), Entroncamento (PT)…
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Yet another successful flight! Braga
Dona Maria II high school First Flight! Mr. Pikinhas (João Abel Vaz) found our most precious payload.
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We found it! =)
We found it! =) We and Solar do Mimo successfully launched and recovered everything. Here is a sample of the photos that were taken. More will come soon.
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GPS mount for F450
Today we’ve made a GPS mount for our quad! Built from scratch and printed in house! All the files required can be found HERE. Take a look!
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It’s alive!!!!
Few hours after, multiple connection cables (re)made, S-Bus issues solved and a couples of firmware updates this boy it’s now alive and kicking! Can’t wait to field test it !!