{"id":1603,"date":"2014-06-27T09:15:32","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T09:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/?p=1603"},"modified":"2015-04-14T14:02:07","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T14:02:07","slug":"pi-in-the-sky-add-on-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/?p=1603","title":{"rendered":"Pi In The Sky Add-On Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What you see below is a simple and reliable GPS radio tracker board for the Pi. Together with the supplied, open-source software it embodies the experience of about 40 successful flights, nearly half of which have used the Raspberry Pi.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/pits.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1604\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/pits.jpg\" alt=\"pits\" width=\"905\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/pits.jpg 905w, http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/pits-300x163.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 905px) 100vw, 905px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Efficient built-in power regulator providing run time of over 20 hours from 4 AA cells<\/li>\n<li>Highly sensitive UBlox GPS receiver approved for altitudes up to 50km<\/li>\n<li>Temperature compensated, frequency agile, 434MHz radio transmitter<\/li>\n<li>Temperature sensor<\/li>\n<li>Battery voltage monitoring<\/li>\n<li>Sockets for external i2c devices, analog input, external temperature sensor<\/li>\n<li>Allows use of Raspbery Pi camera<\/li>\n<li>Mounting holes and spacers for a solid connection to the Pi<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The open-source software provides these features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Radio telemetry with GPS and sensor data using UKHAS standard<\/li>\n<li>Radio image download using SSDV standard<\/li>\n<li>Multi-threaded to maximize use of the radio bandwidth<\/li>\n<li>Variable image size according to altitude<\/li>\n<li>Stores full-definition images as well as smaller transmitted images<\/li>\n<li>Automatically chooses better images for download<\/li>\n<li>Configurable via text file in the Windows-visible partition of the SD card<\/li>\n<li>Supplied as github repository with instructions, or SD card image<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information\u00a0click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pi-in-the-sky.com\/\">this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What you see below is a simple and reliable GPS radio tracker board for the Pi. Together with the supplied, open-source software it embodies the experience of about 40 successful flights, nearly half of which have used the Raspberry Pi. It features: Efficient built-in power regulator providing run time of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1603"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1815,"href":"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603\/revisions\/1815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}