Tracksoar News

Production Tracksoars Assembled and Tested After over a year of development and testing the Tracksoar v1 is finally shipping. We have fulfilled our first 20 orders and so far have received positive feedback from everyone. We couldn't be happier with the quality of the...

  The first round of Tracksoar production boards have arrived! We are very excited with the quality of the boards and initially everything looks good. Tonight we will begin testing the boards and programming them with the default firmware to verify we are in good...

I found a post recently on the Amsat mailing list that caught my attention. Skyler, a Colorado high school student had put together an amateur radio club at his school and is now looking to put together his own high altitude weather balloon launch. They are looking...

Here's a quick demo showing the steps to program, test, and fly a Tracksoar.  

Why Launch A Weather Balloon? There are a lot of reasons to put together a weather balloon launch. Its a great project for a STEM /STEAM class, it requires planning, electronics and programming, and teamwork. It has a lot of great classroom applications, giving a...

We've partnered with the team behind HamShield to offer a new reward on our Kickstarter campaign, a combo Tracksoar and HamShield. HamShield is an open source software defined radio shield for Arduino. By combining HamShield and Tracksoar you can easily decode / debug...

  We sent a Tracksoar to a team out in Texas who were putting together their first ever high altitude balloon launch for a contest. They had only a week to put it together so we sent them one of demo boards. Within just a few minutes of receiving it they had...

Here’s a comparison between the Tracksoar and it’s competition.

Hey everyone, the Tracksoar got a tiny blurb in MAKE Magazine Vol. 47 on page 38. The brief mention is in the Near-Space Photography with APRS section. The fine folks at MAKE will be posting a more in depth review in an upcoming issue, so keep an eye out for that.