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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">This is Borris du Reau.. the main designer behind <a href="http://rocket.payload.free.fr/">Bear Altimeters</a>.. the cool, open hardware/open source based family of altimeters several of us NRVR guys have been playing with on the side for several years now.</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">I'm one of his his small community of followers and he's just sent out a heads up to his community that he has a new set of altimeters he's started production on.</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">His message is below, and link to his latest price list (in Euros) is here:</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">IIRC, he usually takes payment via paypal.</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Tweeks</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">On Monday, June 3, 2019 5:33pm, "Boris du Reau" <boris.dureau@neuf.fr> said:</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Hello dear rocketeers,</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span lang="en-gb">Lots of you have been requesting me to re-do the ATMega 328 based datalogger. My answer was always soon … </span></p>
<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a href="http://rocket.payload.free.fr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=13&Itemid=11&lang=en"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span lang="en-gb"><span style="color: #0000ff;">http://rocket.payload.free.fr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=13&Itemid=11&lang=en</span></span></span></a></p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span lang="en-gb">For the past 3 years I have been playing with different datalogger designs and a common Android software for them. I have also been trying different modules such as Bluetooth and 3DR telemetry modules. All the code for the firmware and the Android app is on my github. </span> <a href="https://github.com/bdureau">https://github.com/bdureau</a><a href="https://github.com/bdureau"></a></p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span lang="en-gb">I have decided to release 2 different boards. </span>One is based on the ATMega 328 and the other one is a shield for the STM32 based board.</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span lang="en-gb">Those boards are for people, </span> <strong style="color: #000000; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="display: inline-block;" lang="en-gb"><span style="color: #ff0000;">who have programming knowledge in the Arduino environment</span></span></strong> they can be used with my code or your own.</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Dataloggers are a lot more complex than the other altimeters and testing new code takes time.</p>
<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span lang="en-gb">The ATMega 328 has 3 pyro ouputs and a Bluetooth or telemetry port. It has on board memory to save the flights.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span lang="en-gb">The STM32 has 4 pyro outputs and 2 Bluetooth or telemetry ports. It has on board memory to save the flights. The advantage of this board is that it runs a lot faster and has more programming memory.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span lang="en-gb">Additionally I have created a board that can drive servos rather than fire pyro charges. The board can drive 4 servos and is intended for people who want to drop boosters or do water rockets. </span></p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span lang="en-gb">All those boards can be configured using the BearConsole Android app. These boards will soon be available on order.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">For those interested here is <a href="http://theweeks.org/tmp/FILES/tmp/Bear_altimeter_price_list_2019-06-02.pdf">the price list</a>. Be sure to ask me for availability before ordering.</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size: 12pt; overflow-wrap: break-word;">You can see a summary of all the altimeters I did and their characteristics here:</p>
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