# TeleMetrum
-This is a recording altimeter for high power model rocketry with integrated
-telemetry link.
+This is a recording dual-deploy altimeter for high power model rocketry
+with integrated telemetry link.
## Motivation ##
[BeeLine](http://www.bigredbee.com/BeeLine.htm)
trackers from
[Big Red Bee](http://www.bigredbee.com), and are pretty happy with them.
-They use a PIC processor and a TI Chipcon cc1050 transmitter chip, and
+They use a PIC processor and a TI CC1050 transmitter chip, and
operate in the ham radio 70cm band.
-One weekend while attending a conference together, We got to wondering if
+One weekend while attending a conference together, we got to wondering if
we couldn't adapt one to use as a downlink for the
[AltusMetrum](../AltusMetrum/) altimeter board in addition to direction
finding after flight. That caused us to start thinking about other things
* SPI interface
* Various Sensors
* Freescale MP3H6115A pressure sensor
- * Freescale MMA2202 50g accelerometer
+ * Freescale MMA2202EG 50g accelerometer. Can use 40-200g variants!
* Microchip MCP9700A temperature sensor
-* Software Features
+* Software Features (planned)
* Written mostly in C with some 8051 assembler
* Runs from on-chip flash, uses on-chip RAM, stores flight data to
serial EEPROM chip
* USB serial emulation for "console" interface
+ * USB mass storate emulation for data recovery
* Uses the SDCC compiler and FreeRTOS
* Licenses
* The hardware is licensed under the TAPR OHL
## Artifacts ##
The hardware design current gEDA files are available from
-[git.gag.com](git.gag.com).
+[git.gag.com](http://git.gag.com).
-As of 1 January 2009, the parts and stencil for the v0.1 have arrived, and
+As of 1 January 2009, the parts and stencil for v0.1 have arrived, and
we're waiting for the raw PC boards! Stay tuned for updates, and note that
Bdale will be giving an update in his session at Linux Conference Australia
in late January...