As I suspected, the stripboard could not take the pain of further re-soldering, so a new board had to be acquired. This time the whole board is being laid out first, (as you can see from the photo), and will be soldered in one go. I’m fairly confident that the major components (the IC’s) will have survived – but we won’t know for sure until tomorrow. Lets hope Friday is third time lucky.
Andy has been putting in the hours on the tracking software and the latest news is that it can now error check the data that is received from Zephyrus 1. During the flight it’s likely that the radio range will be close to its limit and, as a result, some information may be corrupted. In that instance, we don’t want to be chasing shadows – we want to know for sure that the data we get back is good. Thanks to Andy’s software, any points plotted on Google Maps will be pre-checked giving us full confidence in where our payload is.
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