{"id":2670,"date":"2020-02-25T13:55:11","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T13:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/?page_id=2670"},"modified":"2021-02-27T16:56:33","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T16:56:33","slug":"trackers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/?page_id=2670","title":{"rendered":"Trackers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tracking is the most important part of high altitude ballooning, because without reliable tracking there&#8217;s no point launching in the first place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can either purchase a tracker kit or build your own tracker from electronic components and modules.  The latter is more rewarding but not everyone has the time or requisite skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are some of the options you have:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">FlexTrak<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This is my new tracker, building on experience with my previous trackers (see below).  It combines the inherent reliability of a microcontroller tracker with the capabilities added by a Raspberry Pi.  See <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/?page_id=2710\" target=\"_blank\">this article<\/a> on the new product.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FlexTrak replaces the following 2 products:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Pi In The Sky<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/?p=1639\">http:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/?p=1639<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/store.uputronics.com\/index.php?route=product\/product&amp;product_id=52&amp;search=pi+in+the+sky\">https:\/\/store.uputronics.com\/index.php?route=product\/product&amp;product_id=52&amp;search=pi+in+the+sky<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>HABDuino<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/store.uputronics.com\/index.php?route=product\/product&amp;product_id=57\">https:\/\/store.uputronics.com\/index.php?route=product\/product&amp;product_id=57<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Or you can build your own tracker, for example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/?p=2101\">https:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/?p=2101<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tracking is the most important part of high altitude ballooning, because without reliable tracking there&#8217;s no point launching in the first place. You can either purchase a tracker kit or build your own tracker from electronic components and modules. The latter is more rewarding but not everyone has the time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2670"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2670"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2718,"href":"https:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2670\/revisions\/2718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daveakerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}