TeleGPS Owner's Manual
A recording GPS tracker
Keith
Packard
2014
Bdale Garbee and Keith Packard
This document is released under the terms of the
Creative Commons ShareAlike 3.0
license.
1.0
28 May 2014
Initial release with preliminary hardware.
Acknowledgements
Have fun using these products, and we hope to meet all of you
out on the rocket flight line somewhere.
Bdale Garbee, KB0G
NAR #87103, TRA #12201
Keith Packard, KD7SQG
NAR #88757, TRA #12200
Quick Start Guide
TeleGPS is designed to be easy to use. Requiring no external
components, flying takes just a few steps.
Handling Precautions
All Altus Metrum products are sophisticated electronic devices.
When handled gently and properly installed in an air-frame, they
will deliver impressive results. However, as with all electronic
devices, there are some precautions you must take.
The Lithium polymer batteries have an
extraordinary power density. This is great because we can fly with
much less battery mass... but if they are punctured
or their contacts are allowed to short, they can and will release their
energy very rapidly!
Thus we recommend that you take some care when handling TeleGPS
to keep conductive material from coming in contact with the exposed metal elements.
As with all other rocketry electronics, Altus Metrum devices must
be protected from exposure to corrosive motor exhaust and ejection
charge gasses.
Technical Information
GPS Receiver
TeleGPS uses the u-Blox Max-7Q GPS receiver.
Micro-controller
TeleGPS uses an NXP LPC11U14 micro-controller. This tiny
CPU contains 32kB of flash for the application and 4kB of RAM for
temporary data storage.
Lithium Polymer Battery
Shipping restrictions may prevent us from including a battery
battery with TeleGPS.
Mechanical Considerations
TeleGPS is designed to be rugged enough for typical rocketry
applications.
On-board data storage
TeleGPS has some bytes of non-volatile storage, separate
from the code storage memory. The TeleGPS firmware uses this
to store information about the last completed
flight.