Dear Sparkfuners:
This website is fantastic and filled with incredible stuff… Alas, I am a mechanical engineer and know only the basics of electronics - hoping you can help me pick out some items please.
I am doing some near space photography and will be sending a weather balloon and payload to around 110,000 feet sometime in May. I would like to put together a small data acquisition system that can be sent up with the payload to collect the following information:
Atmospheric pressure
A couple of temperature points
GPS data (IF POSSIBLE)
I only need to take this data 1 - 10 times per minute, or even as low as 1 time every 2 minutes. Temperature within the enclosure should remain above freezing as it’s well insulated and will have some heaters installed. This isn’t a major project and I am willing to keep things as simple as possible and maybe increase complexity for the next flights. Let me know what ya got please!!! Looking forward to this. Flight time is expected to be 2-3 hours… Also submitted this to tech support…
Mike