An open-source high-altitude balloon tracker, based on the original Trackuino.
This repository contains the code for the ground station, the high-altitude balloon tracker, vehicle trackers, and handheld locators.
Designed and built by @EricAndrechek and @jfwoods under the GPL-2 License.
The balloon tracker, "payload", high-altitude balloon (hab), or Trackuino, was the original project that this repository was built around. It is a high-altitude balloon tracker, designed to be as cheap as possible, and to be easily built by anyone with a soldering iron and a few hours to spare. It is based on the original Trackuino although it has been heavily modified and improved. See the balloon-tracker page for more information.
The vehicle tracker is a small, low-power, low-cost tracker designed to be placed on chase vehicles so that their locations can be tracked by other chase teams. It uses ARPS-IS to report its location but includes no actual radio hardware, thus keeping its cost down and its power consumption low. See the vehicle-tracker page for more information.
The handheld locator is a small and lightweight device used to track the balloon after it has landed or during its decent. It uses a different, shorter distance radio frequency to communicate two-way with the balloon tracker. Once in range, you are also able to send a kill message to the balloon tracker, which will trigger it to cut its burn wire and any other payloads on the balloon. See the handheld-locator page for more information.