Field Day 2012 - Foothills Amateur Radio Society (FARS)

This is my last Fieldday for this Club, I have to handover to the New generation to takecard and they will do much better and bigger that me.

Field day 2012 this year was so cold , windy, morning around 47 and night time 41, I stay up all night just want to get the Sat-com contact but too bad , never made any of that :(

Education Demo for Amateur Radio application that can be fun and life saver explain how the APRS combined in the feature for the GEIGER Rover for Radio Active Survey.

Replaced Motor for KENPRO EL rotor from AC Motor to 24 VDC

 All done, under testing. work well, autostop at both end , I added Diode to reversed and also added the Lamp.

 See how bad the motor, Coil already short and never run.

This is what happen when you buy some ROTOR from EBAY I got this for $88 but I send email to complaint them that it won't work and they never tell so they paid me back $40, which ok for the rest of the part should be.  

24 VDC Motor got from EBAY $10 USD

FIt perfectly

Need to Cut the back to get the room from the longer DC motor

Nice but i will need to make the plastic shield to protect the moisure

Maker Fair 2012

Maker Fair 2012 , San Mateo, California on May 19,20 2012

 I decided to participate this event, I just realized that so many smart young people and many people have a very good idea. I felt that so happy to be around of involve with other people who think the same way I did about creativity to build something better and more fun without any politic or hidden agenda.  well, not all the good people but I try to ignore some of stereo type anyway i am just Asian man and try to have some fun.  I join to be volunteer for this year and I only have small portion to share my idea and time slot was not full fill my dream to tell people about my idea.  Next year, I already setup my motivation to go solo, even it will hard but i will do that with couple of some of my closed friend back me up.

See you guy next year at MAKER FAIR 2013

That 's me at the booth with my Robot

very good meaning

My Robot, Geiger -ROVER

Delorean Hovercraf  very cool

 Electric Car EMW

 One of the battery that used in this car cost $100 per cell from China used around 100 cell

 I like this one Heineken Beer :)

 Mole or Plastic Fabrication company present very implressive model from GAME

My Robot with Geiger Counter APRS , can be send to nuclear danger zone

I believed this the Air Cylinder Robot

X-Tinytrack Project - base concept from TRACKUINO * on ARDUINO

*Thank you  to Javier Martin( *Courtesy from Trackuino.org) who wrote many of the libraries and codes for the APRS tracker.  I will give him most of the credit of my project .  I design PCB as to be used with the regular HT and GPS module from ARGENT DATA $36 very high sensitive indoor still can fixed GPS data.  I was reading Trackuino.org made by Javi and I do not know where I can have PCB so then I build it and then here that I have. Arduino is cheap and easy to develop to get the project going fast.

TRAKUINO code with adding LCD , Softserial Feature(Thank Javier Martin for helping)

Have the Heading in degree , Speed,  and time. Good for small Bicycle Speedometer?

PCB Design base on the *Trackuino Code ( *Courtesy from Trackuino.org) but have some modification that have to move native serial port to NewSoftserial.h  port , adding GPS connector , Adding LCD and also be able to use the regular HT.  I build PCB just for the min as I want to try out my design and worked . I will redesign again to be able to use . MX-1 (VHF module 144.390 300mW)  email me for the code.

I did write the Code on VB 6 just simple for some HAM who want to use my PCB and did not want to go to Arduino IDE just use GUI to program Callsign, SSID, Symbol connect to this board and PC comm or visual serial port then program to Arduino EPROM. as below:-

1st select Com number then click ok to activate the serial and establish the connection between board and PC then just read from board memory and then edit Write to eprom just simple is that.

I wrote my own code to GPS decode and display on LCD and also included the SMART Beacon reflect to the speed , slow and fast for more freq beacon.

Feature:-

Display Speed , Heading ,  Battery Bar graph level , PST time , LAT , LON 

I also tested out the original Trackuino and it worked pretty good with this unit.  original Trackuino used the Radimetrix MX1 $40 but I have many of my HT so that I used my design to work with HT so that can put in to small metal box somewhere.   Nice project,. I guessed

Completed Unit that I build in Rev.1 LED status in case of no LCD display

Proteus software to design

3D model same as the actual one. 

Geiger Counter + APRS project with Arduino Boot loader

Design the PCB and combined the Geiger Counter with APRS so that when measuring the radiation this unit can send the position via APRS network to appears on Google Maps. I did not write all the code and this have 2 sections of the Code which I combined them together and it worked , it took me many days to test and make sure got the good packet to the IGATE (Aprs server) 

Credit list of people who provided information and has been used in my project:- 

• Geiger Counter Kit has Code and Calculation by John Giametti here is his web link  
•  APRS libraries wrote to by Javien Martin - www.trackuino.org   
• Softserial and GPS decoder library to elighcash posted sample code so that I can understand how to decode the GPS message on Arduino Playground Forum.  
  
  
  
GPS Module from Argent Data $36  very good / high sensitive

VHF narrow band Radio Module pre programed 144.390 MHz 300mw (150mA only)  from RadioMatrix MX-1 $40 USD

Combined them together on Demo Board will appear at Amateur Radio Booth,
Maker Fair 2012 May 19,2012 at San Mateo Fair ground , CA

Visual Diagram 

Just finished and it worked

Completed with SBM-20 and GPS module

My Work Bench 

PCB ordered from China only 10 pcs

1st prototype insert into the CDV-715

Power coating

Prototype with wiring