Comments on: More rocket data

By: mojojones

mojojones — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:01:41 +0000

Just bumped into this while thinking about launching an ipod touch. I wonder if you ever worked out the issues? Thinking of any new experiments? It would seem that the iphone could be an interesting flight computer if other sensing devices could be connected via the dock port. PM me if you like.

Thanks,

By: lolife

lolife — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 03:17:22 +0000

Do you have Xcode and the iPhone SDK and everything? The code is nothing special and I don’t mind sharing it but most people don’t have the prereqs.

I am going to polish it up and get it in the App Store at some point. So if you are an iPhone dev I’d be happy to collaborate!

Cheers,
M.

By: rbazinet

rbazinet — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:11:32 +0000

Great stuff. Any chance you would share the source code to the iPhone application?

I am TRA member too, #8759. I am also certified L3 and a TAP member, I have an interest in using this myself.

Please feel free to contact me off line – rbazinet at gmail dot com.

Thanks.

By: lolife

lolife — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 20:19:14 +0000

I should add that the red iphone rocket and the yellow rocket are very similar, having the same diameters, nearly the same lengths and roughly the same centers of pressure and gravity. If anything the yellow rocket (an Aerotech Initiator) should perform slightly better because it has smaller fins and is more optimally stable. The red rocket is a LOC Graduator. I used the same 10″ payload bay on both of them.

I say this because I should have launched the yellow rocket with the altimeter and a G80 and it would have been exactly like the iPhone launch except for the weight difference (which is only 50g).