Peter Ridgeway wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I am building a new type of accelerometer which shall be tested at Woomera
> Spaceport (the old historic launch site in South Australia) around July, on
> a MK4 or MK15 (Zuni) rocket.  For simplicity, I want to base my electronics
> on a PIC chip and EEprom, but i don't have much experience with PIC's yet.
> If anyone out there who knows PIC's well would like to help, it will be a
> great and challenging project, and a chance to really put the chips to the
> test (I need them to log large quantities of info from ADC's in the
> ~2seconds the rocket goes up... thousands of feet at around 60g (~580m/s/s!)
> If I could, I would like to be able to have practical help if someone lives
> locally (Sydney) but I'll be keeping this list posted as to any problems,
> anything we find about PIC's under such harch environments, and eventually
> the schematic for the thing [if Kistler Aerospace, who run this thing, will
> let me :-)].  Any help from any PICers anywhere would be appreciated, though
> you might want to email me personly to avoid clogging up the list...
> peterar_83@hotmail.com

I'm 1 hour from Sydney and interested in your
project. I have some experience getting good data
rates with PICs. What did you have in mind?
-Roman

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