VTLUUG:2013-11-07

Date, Time and Location

• Thursday, November 8th, 2013
• 20:30 - 22:00
• Lavery Hall 350

VTLUUG Announcements

• Reminder to upload signed keys to the keyserver

Technical Talks & General Discussion

• Open Source and Amateur Radio Satellites: The Virginia Tech Camera Experiment Aboard AMSAT FOX-1 - Jagged

In conjunction with the nonprofit Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation
(AMSAT), students at The Hume Center at Virginia Tech are actively
working on an imaging experiment payload for the FOX-1 LEO Cubesat.
FOX-1 is a 10 centimeter cube with a targeted orbit of 600km.  Virginia
Tech is tasked with providing an experiment board which will product a
640x480 JPEG picture from orbit.  The entire project is written with
GPLv3 code, based on ChibiOS/RT RTOS on an STM32L151ZDT6 low-power ARM
processor.  Recently released from ITAR restrictions, this project is
actively soliciting help to bring the project to completion.  The
hardware and software system architecture is discussed in this
presentation, with a focus on the system software architecture.

About the speaker:

Mitch Davis (AKA "Jagged") is an Electrical Engineering graduate student
with a BSEE and BSCpE from Virginia Tech, concentrating in the fields of
communications and radar systems.  His current work involves the
realtime detection of wireless broadband systems in the presence of
impulsive noise.  Mitch is a licensed amateur radio operator, callsign
WQ3C, and enjoys many different operating bands and modes.  His previous
work experience includes avionics and communications systems, industrial
and hazardous environment computing systems, and commercial public
safety communications.

Hacking & Projects

• Railgun talk/demo - telnoratti