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+[[!meta title="TelePyro"]]
# TelePyro
This is an 8-channel pyro expansion board for [TeleMetrum](../TeleMetrum/).
+ 
+ 
+
## Motivation ##
It would be nice to support more than the 2 channels of igniter control
included in the stock [TeleMetrum](../TeleMetrum/) design, so that we can
fly more complex projects involving staging, air starts, and backup ejection
-charges. We also want to experiment with better circuits for testing igniter
-continuity, with the hope of being able to measure actual resistance and not
-just continuity.
+charges.
## Features ##
@@ -23,14 +25,16 @@ just continuity.
### Developer View ###
-* [Atmel ATmega32U4](http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/product_card.asp?category_id=163&family_id=607&subfamily_id=760&part_id=4317) Microcontroller
- * 32k Flash
- * 2.5k + 832 bytes SRAM
- * 1k EEPROM
- * 12-channel 10-bit ADC
- * SPI target interface
- * USB interface which can be used for programming
- * In-system programming interface
+* Hardware Features
+ * [Atmel ATmega32U4](http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/product_card.asp?category_id=163&family_id=607&subfamily_id=760&part_id=4317) Microcontroller
+ * 32k Flash
+ * 2.5k + 832 bytes SRAM
+ * 1k EEPROM
+ * 12-channel 10-bit ADC
+ * SPI target interface
+ * USB interface which can be used for programming
+ * In-system programming interface
+ * Honeywell HMC5843 3-axis magnetic flux sensor
* Software Features (planned)
* programmed in C using gcc-avr
* Runs from on-chip flash, uses on-chip RAM
@@ -42,11 +46,17 @@ just continuity.
## Artifacts ##
-A schematic exists on [git.gag.com](http://git.gag.com) in the project
-[hw/telepyro](http://git.gag.com/?p=hw/telepyro;a=summary),
+A schematic and PC board design exist on [git.gag.com](http://git.gag.com)
+in the project [hw/telepyro](http://git.gag.com/?p=hw/telepyro;a=summary),
but no prototypes have been built yet.
## Future Plans ##
-We currently plan to build prototypes of TelePyro in Spring 2011.
+In late September 2011, v0.1 prototype boards were loaded and lightly
+tested. They were never flown. The prototypes of TelePyro were lost in the
+[Black Forest Fire](http://www.gag.com/blackforestfire.html), and have not
+been replaced.
+If we ever get back to this project, the first thing we'll want to do is toss
+out the current design and start over, using an ARM Cortex SOC and our "new
+pyro circuit" that completely prevents processor brown-out.
+
## Motivation ##
It would be nice to support more than the 2 channels of igniter control
included in the stock [TeleMetrum](../TeleMetrum/) design, so that we can
fly more complex projects involving staging, air starts, and backup ejection
-charges. We also want to experiment with better circuits for testing igniter
-continuity, with the hope of being able to measure actual resistance and not
-just continuity.
+charges.
## Features ##
@@ -23,14 +25,16 @@ just continuity.
### Developer View ###
-* [Atmel ATmega32U4](http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/product_card.asp?category_id=163&family_id=607&subfamily_id=760&part_id=4317) Microcontroller
- * 32k Flash
- * 2.5k + 832 bytes SRAM
- * 1k EEPROM
- * 12-channel 10-bit ADC
- * SPI target interface
- * USB interface which can be used for programming
- * In-system programming interface
+* Hardware Features
+ * [Atmel ATmega32U4](http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/product_card.asp?category_id=163&family_id=607&subfamily_id=760&part_id=4317) Microcontroller
+ * 32k Flash
+ * 2.5k + 832 bytes SRAM
+ * 1k EEPROM
+ * 12-channel 10-bit ADC
+ * SPI target interface
+ * USB interface which can be used for programming
+ * In-system programming interface
+ * Honeywell HMC5843 3-axis magnetic flux sensor
* Software Features (planned)
* programmed in C using gcc-avr
* Runs from on-chip flash, uses on-chip RAM
@@ -42,11 +46,17 @@ just continuity.
## Artifacts ##
-A schematic exists on [git.gag.com](http://git.gag.com) in the project
-[hw/telepyro](http://git.gag.com/?p=hw/telepyro;a=summary),
+A schematic and PC board design exist on [git.gag.com](http://git.gag.com)
+in the project [hw/telepyro](http://git.gag.com/?p=hw/telepyro;a=summary),
but no prototypes have been built yet.
## Future Plans ##
-We currently plan to build prototypes of TelePyro in Spring 2011.
+In late September 2011, v0.1 prototype boards were loaded and lightly
+tested. They were never flown. The prototypes of TelePyro were lost in the
+[Black Forest Fire](http://www.gag.com/blackforestfire.html), and have not
+been replaced.
+If we ever get back to this project, the first thing we'll want to do is toss
+out the current design and start over, using an ARM Cortex SOC and our "new
+pyro circuit" that completely prevents processor brown-out.