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Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Balloons with SAT and Thom Sokoloski

We wrapped up the prototype to control the lighting system of a wireless network of Internet-controlled balloons (photo 1). We also finished the scale model of the project (photo 2), controlled by a personal computer. This is all embedded programming, so if you're curious, the prototype's executable code is 8 Kilobytes (including wireless, I/O and power drivers), the scale model's 22 Kilobytes...

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