At 07:46 PM 09/03/1997 -0800, you wrote:
>Matt Calder wrote:
>>
>>         Does anyone know of designs for a PIC
>> based altimeter for use in model rocketry?
>>
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>> /* Matt Calder, Dept. of Statistics, CSU */
>> /* http://www.stat.colostate.edu/~calder */
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>
>
>Matt,
>
>Not exactly what you are looking for, but I remember a model rocketry
>altimeter project in Radio Electronics or its latest incarnation Electronics
>Now. I think it was around '90 or '91. I think the code was for a Motorola
>micro, but porting it over to a PIC is always an option.
>
It was around then.  Called a pocket Altimeter and used a Motorola Pressure
sensor.  They also had a really nice water column method of calibrating the
sensor.  Alas the magazine developed paws and wandered off perhaps to be
captured by another magazine lover.

John
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