Our group decided what sensors we will be using this week. The payload will be taking pictures as well as live video to document the payloads journey to 100,000 ft and back down. We will also be observing elevation, temperature (inside and outside of the the payload), acceleration (will discuss this later in the post), particulate density as the payload reaches near space, pressure, atmospheric moisture, and possibly gamma radiation.
I have started to do some preliminary research to see how complicated it is to build a geiger counter type sensor. Luckily for me, there are lots of geeks in the world, and found countless technical schematics for building a sensor that will detect gamma rays over a given period of time.
It looks a little something like this:
Until next week,
Mark
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