Sun SPOT Rockets

In one day back in 2006, we built a rocket, outfitted it with Sun SPOTs and wrote a program to monitor the rocket from our laptops as it flew.... It was a good day. Note: this was back in the good ole days of the bSPOT.

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[tjteru]

The project wasn't so much about rocketry as it was about working with Sun SPOTs.  Their range is short (~100 meters) so a high launch wasn't so important. Instead, getting all the software written and doing the launch in one day - start to finish - was the goal. In that respect it was a great success.

[Rollora]

Hi!

Currently I am working with a SPOT too, can you tell me what you did exactly with the SPOT? Did you Measure Acceleration? Oh and wrote everything within 1 Day? COOL. I am a beginner at programming, is it possible for me too, to read out some sensors or do i have to train my java skills for... well let's say a year (not full time, only a few hours a day, i am hard studying (not hardly ;-) )

[aderbalnunesm]

What the Sun Spot have to do with rocket?

[someoneyourknow]

Do you think that experiment was a success. It only been in air for few seconds?

Also can you tell that what exactly you have monitor? What is the maximum transmission range of Sun Spot?