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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)
14 Bdale gave a talk in the first-ever TRA Technical Conference held in the
15 evenings at LDRS 39 on
16 [Building Better Electronics Bays](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM3T95gH750)
18 ## Local 4H presentation in March 2014 ##
20 Bdale was invited to give an introduction to electronics in rockets to a
21 local 4H rocketry project in Colorado Springs.
23 * [Slides](./RocketElectronics.odp)
27 Bdale and Keith presenting on [TeleMetrum](../TeleMetrum) v0.2 at LCA 2010 in
28 Wellington, New Zealand in January 2010. Includes details of various notable
29 flights with v0.1 during the 2009 flying season.
31 * [Slides](./TM-v0.2-LCA2010.odp)
32 * [Video](http://2009.r2.co.nz/20100118/50182.htm)
33 * The very funny [woot.com video](http://vimeo.com/7467353) we showed at the
34 end of the talk, featuring Bdale's big
35 [Goblin](http://www.gag.com/rockets/projects/goblin10/) airframe and a
36 few, brave, [woot.com](http://woot.com) screaming flying monkey dolls! Much
37 later, the Woot gang put out a
38 [video update](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_6sLheu3_U)
39 celebrating the successful recovery of two of the monkeys...
43 Bdale's second LCA presentation on rocketry, this time covering a broad range
44 of related activites and the application of open hardware and open source
45 philosophy in each. At the time of this talk, [TeleMetrum](../TeleMetrum) v0.1
46 bare boards had just arrived, but nothing had been populated yet!
48 * [Slides](./TeleMetrum.odp)
52 Bdale's first public presentation on rocket avionics, at LCA 2008 in Melbourne,
53 Australia in January 2008. This talk includes huge amounts of background
54 material on the rocketry hobby, and was the first public discussion of Bdale's
55 original, [ARM-based altimeter design](../OpenAlt).
57 * [Slides](./AltusMetrum.odp)
58 * [Video](http://mirror.linux.org.au/pub/linux.conf.au/2008/Wed/mel8-201.ogg)