Senior Engineer at Haven
Latest posts
Evaluating camera options for a HAB flight for capturing photo and video
November 01, 2023Experimenting with options for a high altitude balloon flight, including SPI camera, ESP32-CAM, and standalone action camera.
An long range distance experiment with LoRaWAN on The Things Network
October 04, 2023Making the most of a mountain climb to experiment with the range of LoRa transmission from an ESP32 module to a gateway on The Things Network.
Tracking a HAB using The Things Network using LoRaWAN and LMIC-node
September 16, 2023Encoding and sending telemetry data to The Things Network to use third party gateways for tracking high altitude balloons.
Transferring data between two ESP32s via SPI pins
July 07, 2023Sending data between two ESP32 microcontroller boards using SPI interface, for the purpose of transferring data to be sent over LoRa radio.
LoRa radio range tests with varying software configurations
July 03, 2023A short post documenting figures from a LoRa distance test, designed to get the maximum distance in my area by altering both the software options and the antenna types.
Sending GPS data over LoRa for HAB tracking
June 11, 2023Integrating a GPS module to a Raspberry Pi Pico to send telemetry data using a LoRa transmitter.
Programming the Raspberry Pi Pico in Arduino IDE on a Mac
June 01, 2023How to use Arduino IDE to program a Raspberry Pi Pico, including loading example sketches and loading custom code.
Tracking high altitude balloons with LoRa using Raspberry Pi gateway
May 20, 2023Using LoRa gateway software on a Raspberry Pi to transmit location and sensor data to Sondehub in order to display HAB telemetry for viewing by everyone.
Using LoRa for communication between ESP32 and Raspberry Pi
May 03, 2023Configuring ESP32 and Raspberry Pi 4 to use standalone Lora RFM9x modules for point to point data transfer, with connection details and list of usable libraries.
The start of my journey into high altitude balloon and radio tracking
April 28, 2023The start of a two month obsession into learning about high altitude ballooning and long range balloon tracking.