## Motivation ##
-While it is possible to use a partially (or fully!) loaded
-[TeleMetrum](../TeleMetrum/) board as a USB to RF interface, we think
-it would be cool to have a nice hand-held ground station we can use in
-full sunlight on the flight line. If it can help locate the rocket and is
+While using a [TeleDongle](../TeleDongle/) board as a USB to RF interface to
+a notebook computer works splendidly, we think it would be cool to have a
+nice hand-held ground station we can use in full sunlight on the flight line.
+If it can help locate the rocket and is
easy to carry during recovery operations, so much the better!
## Features ##
### User View ###
-* Hand-held unit about the size of a calculator
+* Hand-held unit about the size of a calculator with 4 line 20 character LCD
* Antenna for the telemetry stream from [TeleMetrum](../TeleMetrum/)
* Integrated GPS receiver core to allow display of current user position,
and relative position of GPS-equipped rockets
### Developer View ###
-* Partially populated [TeleMetrum](../TeleMetrum/) board
- * Serial connector used to attach user interface board
- * LiPo charge management
- * Beeper for audible indications
- * RF section with SMA for external antenna
- * USB interface
-* New user interface board
- * [Microchip 16F886](http://www.microchip.com/wwwproducts/Devices.aspx?dDocName=en530146) Microcontroller
- * 8k Flash
- * 386 bytes RAM
- * I2C target interface
- * In-circuit programming interface
- * Serial port
+* Single circuit board
+ * equivalent of a [TeleMetrum](../TeleMetrum/) less the sensors
+ * [Atmel ATtiny48](http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/product_card_v2.asp?PN=ATtiny48) used as an I/O expander
* 4 line, 20 character transreflective text LCD display
- * Switches for scrolling, safe/arm, etc
- * LEDs to indicate current flight mode, etc
+ * "joystick" switch for user inputs
* LiPo battery
-* GPS receiver core attached to serial port on new user interface board
* Software Features (planned)
- * Written in PIC assembler
- * Runs from on-chip flash, uses on-chip RAM
+ * [AltOS](../AltOS) for the cc1111 and simple C for the AVR
* Tools Used
* [gEDA](http://www.gpleda.org/) for schematic capture and PCB layout
* Licenses
## Artifacts ##
-As of 26 April 2009, an incomplete schematic exists at
+A tentative schematic exists at
[git.gag.com](http://git.gag.com) in the project
[hw/teleterra](http://git.gag.com/?p=hw/teleterra;a=summary).