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2 # Altus Metrum Presentations
4 These are presentations we've made at various conferences. Not everything
5 is linked in here yet... Be warned, the OpenOffice presentation files tend
6 to be HUGE, since we include lots of high-resolution photos!
10 Bdale gave a talk on [Rocketry Antenna Fundamentals](https://youtu.be/AJN0m7bK9yI), here is the
11 [slide deck](AntennaFundamentals.odp).
15 Bdale gave a talk in the first-ever TRA Technical Conference held in the
16 evenings at LDRS 39 on
17 [Building Better Electronics Bays](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM3T95gH750), here is the
18 [slide deck](BetterElectronicBays.odp).
20 ## Local 4H presentation in March 2014 ##
22 Bdale was invited to give an introduction to electronics in rockets to a
23 local 4H rocketry project in Colorado Springs.
25 * [Slides](./RocketElectronics.odp)
29 Bdale and Keith presenting on [TeleMetrum](../TeleMetrum) v0.2 at LCA 2010 in
30 Wellington, New Zealand in January 2010. Includes details of various notable
31 flights with v0.1 during the 2009 flying season.
33 * [Slides](./TM-v0.2-LCA2010.odp)
34 * [Video](http://2009.r2.co.nz/20100118/50182.htm)
35 * The very funny [woot.com video](http://vimeo.com/7467353) we showed at the
36 end of the talk, featuring Bdale's big
37 [Goblin](http://www.gag.com/rockets/projects/goblin10/) airframe and a
38 few, brave, [woot.com](http://woot.com) screaming flying monkey dolls! Much
39 later, the Woot gang put out a
40 [video update](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_6sLheu3_U)
41 celebrating the successful recovery of two of the monkeys...
45 Bdale's second LCA presentation on rocketry, this time covering a broad range
46 of related activites and the application of open hardware and open source
47 philosophy in each. At the time of this talk, [TeleMetrum](../TeleMetrum) v0.1
48 bare boards had just arrived, but nothing had been populated yet!
50 * [Slides](./TeleMetrum.odp)
54 Bdale's first public presentation on rocket avionics, at LCA 2008 in Melbourne,
55 Australia in January 2008. This talk includes huge amounts of background
56 material on the rocketry hobby, and was the first public discussion of Bdale's
57 original, [ARM-based altimeter design](../OpenAlt).
59 * [Slides](./AltusMetrum.odp)
60 * [Video](http://mirror.linux.org.au/pub/linux.conf.au/2008/Wed/mel8-201.ogg)