Denver School of the Arts Amateur Radio club

Denver School of the Arts Amateur Radio club

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...
A Tutorial For Launching Your First Balloon

A Tutorial For Launching Your First Balloon

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...
Tracksoar HamShield Partnership

Tracksoar HamShield Partnership

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 /...
Texas Team Flight

Texas Team Flight

  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...