Bdale Garbee, KB0G
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-Welcome to my "new" personal home page.
-
After retiring at the end of August, 2012, from my long-held position as
[HP](http://hp.com) Open Source & Linux Chief Technologist... I worked
part-time for [Samsung](http://samsung.com) as Senior Adviser to the Open
My "spare nanoseconds" are mostly consumed playing with
[rockets](http://gag.com/rockets), which includes managing
[Altus Metrum, LLC](http://altusmetrum.org) with business partner
-[Keith Packard](http://keithp.org). Some of my personal rocket projects
-and those done with my son are documented at
-[rockets](http://gag.com/rockets). I hold a "Level 3 certification" and am
+[Keith Packard](http://keithp.org). I hold a "Level 3 certification" and am
a member of both the [National Association of Rocketry](http://nar.org)
and the [Tripoli Rocketry Association](http://tripoli.org). My personal
confirmed flight altitude record is 32,635 feet above ground, my highest
Building and launching model rockets is one of our favorite hobby activities
right now. While everyone in the family gets into the act in one way or
-another, Bdale
-and Robert are the most serious and so most Garbee rocket projects end up
-being father and son affairs...
+another, Bdale and Robert are the most serious and so most Garbee rocket
+projects ended up being father and son affairs before Robert went off to
+college.
[Bdale](http://www.gag.com/~bdale) is
[NAR](http://nar.org/) Sr member 87103 and
We have family memberships in (and regularly enjoy flying our
models with!) local clubs
[Tripoli Colorado](http://www.tripolicolorado.org/),
-[SCORE](http://scronline.net),
-and
+[SCORE](http://scronline.net) (which is also now dual-homed and also
+known as Tripoli Southern Colorado!), and
[NCR](http://ncrocketry.org).
We have also flown with
[Metra](http://metrarocketclub.org/),
[NRVR](http://nrvr.org/),
[NZRA](http://www.nzrocketry.org.nz/),
+[Oregon Rocketry](http://oregonrocketry.com),
and
[QRS](https://qldrocketry.com/).
## Electronics ##
-Lots of people make electronics for use in hobby rockets. This is a brief
-list of only the things we've actually used ourselves.
-
-First off, Bdale and friends develop fully open hardware and software
-designs for rocketry avionics, under the name
-[Altus Metrum](http://altusmetrum.org).
-
-We also fly commercial altimeters in some projects. The cheapest off the
-shelf altimeter we've used and often recommend to beginners is the
-[Missile Works](http://www.missileworks.com/) RRC2-mini. At about $80, it
-gets the job done for simple barometric control of dual deployment. Note
-that while early versions had a firmware bug that we believe is at least
-partially responsible for Bdale's loss of his first L3 project, recent
-versions seem fine. For another $20, the
-[PerfectFlite](http://www.perfectflite.com/)
-[miniAlt/WD](http://www.perfectflite.com/catalog/MAWD.html)
-adds the ability to records the barometric flight altitude profile. Both
-of Bdale's L3 certs flew with one each of these two commercial altimeters,
-and we often use the MAWD as a backup for our
-[TeleMetrum](http://altusmetrum.org/TeleMetrum) units during test flights.
-
-The [BeeLine TX](http://www.bigredbee.com/BeeLine.htm) boards from Big Red
-Bee are radio tracking transmitters that just work. They require an
-[amateur radio](http://www.altusmetrum.org/Radio) license, but we think
-anyone flying big rockets can and should get one of those anyway!
+Bdale and friends develop fully open hardware and software designs for
+rocketry avionics, under the name [Altus Metrum](http://altusmetrum.org).
## Books ##
projects / web / gag.com / commitdiff