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Radio Telemetry for Hobby Rockets

Hobby rocketry radio telemetry -- perhaps useful for assessing radio tower height requirements.

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Above: Feather M0 LoRa with BMP180 pressure sensor, sending pressure data to a Mothbot, which is then received over serial port via python script and written to a file.

Four tosses are depicted. Noise is likely due to gusts of air over sensor intake.

Saved rocket data for above flight: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xSktG4DRvUF6qgfyWK6ynM1aw0qqGGJDVixcwqjTPjU/edit?usp=sharing

Microcontroller firmware and python code is here: https://github.com/dwblair/rocketman

Altitude conversion formula: https://www.weather.gov/media/epz/wxcalc/pressureAltitude.pdf

Max weight for a given engine: https://www.apogeerockets.com/education/downloads/Newsletter33.pdf