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After my luxury Ryanair flight with private cabin I arrived in Bremen. Dr. Ertan Goklu (Competition Technical Manager) kindly picked the team up and brought us to the hotel. The accommodation here is excellent, I have a nice big room and plenty of good food. On arrival the team were very attentive checking all sensors and making sure I was fully functional. My new GPS antenna also arrived so we will test that out tomorrow. I could definitely get used to all of this attention.
However, in the evening my team just left me and went into town to get dinner and experience the sights of Bremen. I am the reason they are here and then they just locked me up and left me behind. Not impressed at all!! It is going to be an interesting and exciting few days. I am looking forward meeting my fellow Cansats at the airfield in Rotenburg on Thursday. No doubt we will have a lot in common.
All sensors are working and we now have now a range of test data to convert and graph.
The drone flew our can around the field to test our radio links for both antenna. We were able to receive almost all the data, there were some transmission issues and we realized we needed to either lower the amount of data being sent every loop, or decrease the speed the program is runs at. We chose a hybrid of it, by increasing the delay between recording more data from 250 milliseconds to 500 milliseconds, and also got rid of some unnecessary characters being sent along with the data. The wind on the day was an issue and we nearly lost Canny to quite a large horse chestnut tree!! Huge thanks to Slawomir Zielinski for all his help, patience and high-tec drone!!!!! Today Ted and William traveled to the Metrology Laboratory of the NSAI (National Standards Association of Ireland) where they got the opportunity to calibrate our humidity and temperature sensors using a 373 Dew Point Mirror. This is a precision hygrometer using advanced digital technology and proven optically detected chilled mirror techniques.
The visit also includes an in depth tour of the calibration labs by Technical Manager - Dubhaltach MacLochlainn.
We upgraded Canny Potter by introducing a gyroscope, a magnetometer, a accelerometer and a GPS shield. We also changed the distribution of our can by attaching the LDR we used in the national competition and the gyroscope to the GPS shield. We placed that shield on top of the green one we used for the other competitions. The four pictures on top show both of our shields separated. In the picture on the left you can see all of our hardware right now, the arduino with both shields and all the modules on it. The team gave a great presentation at the school's annual St. Columba's Day celebrations. In two minutes everyone spoke about one aspect of the project to an audience of over 600 parents and pupils.
The talk was topped by the appearance of Canny Potter supported by a Drone which delivered him to the stage. Really proud of them all. Karen Hennessey (Team Mentor) |
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