Hello, I am looking for someone to program an Arduino Uno for me. I am sending a weather balloon with HD cameras up much like the students at MIT did a few years ago, but I would like to have a microcontroller in mine. I am located in the Boston area.
The problem is that I have no idea of how to program one. I have a Microsoft Pharos GPS-500 III GPS Receiver, 1 Boost Mobile cell phone (as a tracking device through cell towers), 2 Kodak Playsport HD Video cameras, 2 Wire Digital Temperature Sensors - DS18B20 and 1 climate control system. I would like to have the Arduino Uno control these components. I have wires attached to the Kodak Playsport Circuit board to turn the camera off or on when shorted together, I have also done this for the recording function, and I also have another set of wires with about 1 volt going through them when the camera is powered on, that I would like to have the Arduino monitor to ensure that the camera is always powered on, and if it is not powered on I would like the Arduino to turn it on by shorting the 2 wires together. I could not find anything on the circuit board of the cameras to let me know when it was recording or not so I am wondering if we can make a sensor to detect a blinking red LED on the front of the cameras to let the Arduino know if the cameras are not only powered on but also to ensure that they are recording. I have the same configuration on the cell phone with the wires. 4 wires total. 2 to turn it on and 2 to monitor the voltage so the Arduino knows if it is on. I also have a climate control system that is going to run on two 5 Volt usb batteries that I would like to engage when the temperature inside the basket gets to 50 degrees and to turn off when it gets to 70 degrees. The second thermometer I am going to place on the outside of the basket, just to record temperatures at 100,000 ft.
I have 2 Arduino Unos with 2 Xbee shields and 2 XBee Pro 900 XSC, that I would like to send me the gps informatoin and temperature readings to the ground, I'm not to sure what is required here. I also have a Arduino Datalogger that I would like to have store all the information processed by the Arduinno.
If someone is interested I would like to hear some feedback and eventually talk over skype and maybe somehow create this thing together across the country, or even in another country depending on who responds. I do not have any money to pay you for this, I am hoping to find someone who might be interested in the project itself and enjoys working with microcontrollers. I have launched 2 other balloons before this, but never with microcontrollers. If you are interested please respond to this post or contact me at Bryan246@gmail.com. I am sure there is plenty of things I should have posted but I can't think of anything more right now, so feel free to ask plenty of questions.