This is the site where Bdale Garbee and friends document work on open hardware and software designs for high powered model rocketry avionics solutions. Please consider everything here work perpetually in process!
All hardware designs on this site are licensed under the TAPR Open Hardware License, and all the software is under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or compatible licenses.
Hobby Rocketry
The motivation for the circuits and software you will find on this site is
our loosely-knit group's shared interest in hobby rocketry.
Rather than try to introduce the hobby to you here, we note that John Coker
has published an excellent
overview of hobby rocketry
on his web site.
To find more information about the rockets Bdale and his son have built, see Garbee Rockets.
As Bdale and Robert became more experienced in the hobby and started to build and fly more sophisticated projects, we started to feel limited by the existing electronics products available. AltusMetrum was Bdale's first attempt to address this situation with a completely open hardware and software design... other project have since followed!
Projects
AltusMetrum was our original project, a dual-deploy rocketry altimeter. One prototype was built, but never flown. This project is now indefinitely on hold.
TeleMetrum is our current project, a dual-deploy rocketry altimeter with improved sensor complement and bidirectional RF telemetry link.
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