1. GPSL 2007

2. Flight Computers BalloonSat PongSat

3. Your Father’s BalloonSat…

4. …Replaced With This Something not found in over 200 surveyed worlds - Aliens

6. Comparisons Hobo and Timer Flight Computer Fixed sample rate 8-bit resolution Hundreds of kb memory Four sensors max No programmable camera control No digital control Variable sample rate 8-bit resolution 1kb of memory Six sensors max Programmable camera control Digital control

7. Programmed in PBASIC

8. Interfacing Sensors and a Camera

9. Positive Start

10. PongSats

11. A PongSat Is…. Instrumented Tiny A Challenge

12. Pongsat Flight Computer First evidence of intelligent life off the earth -2001: A Space Odyssey

13. Pongsat Flight Computer

14. PongSat Flight Computer Features Variable sample rate 8-bit resolution Two sensor max 200 bytes of storage

15. Programmed in BASIC

16. Questions?