Project Vanguard

A space program for the Web

v0.1 - Stratosphere (HABs)

Enable JS based experiments on the Beaglebone Black using High Altitude Balloons for R&D

High level hardware BoM

BeagleBone Black Rev B/C
RadiumBoards HD Camera Cape for BeagleBone Black
Argent Data FC301/D UHF 5W Data Radio
TNC-Black
A Custom Find-Me Cape with:
- MediaTek MT3339 GPS chip (also used in the Adafruit Ultimate GPS)
- RadioMetrix TX2H 433MHz 25mW transmitter
- Freescale MPL3115A2 Altimeter and Pressure Sensor
- Mallory Sonalert PS-562Q 100dB Alert Speaker
- Internal and external 10K thermistors @ 25C

A detailed list of pin usage is maintained in PINS.md

Software requirements

BeagleBone Black setup

We use the Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS builds from RobertCNelson, instructions and more info can be pulled from the eLinux Wiki

Flash a 2GB or higher microSD card w/ Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS from RobertCNelson's builds, where /dev/sdX is your SD card device name:

  $ wget https://rcn-ee.com/rootfs/2015-05-08/microsd/bone-ubuntu-14.04.2-console-armhf-2015-05-08-2gb.img.xz
  $ unxz bone-ubuntu-14.04.2-console-armhf-2015-05-08-2gb.img.xz
  $ sudo dd if=./bone-ubuntu-14.04.2-console-armhf-2015-05-08-2gb.img of=/dev/sdX

Insert the microSD into your BeagleBone black with the mini-USB connector attached to your laptop, and ssh in with user ubuntu password temppwd
```
  $ ssh ubuntu@arm.local
```

If the microSD is over 2GB, grow the partition so it allows over 2GB:

  $ cd /opt/scripts/tools
  $ git pull
  $ ./grow_partition.sh
  $ sudo reboot

Now run the vanguard bootstrap script:
```
  $ sudo ./payload/bootstrap.sh
```

Dev environment setup

Install gpsd and virtualenvwrapper

Linux w/ apt:

 $ sudo apt-get install gpsd
 $ sudo pip install virtualenvwrapper # globally

Mac OS X with Homebrew:

 $ brew install gpsd python
 $ pip install virtualenvwrapper # globally

Virtualenv setup

 $ mkvirtualenv -r payload/requirements.txt --system-site-packages vanguard
 $ workon vanguard

Configuration

See payload/config/config.json

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