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New Product Ideas / Practical new shield idea

« on: April 27, 2014, 08:08:25 AM »

Hi all

I'm an Amateur Radio operator and many of us have extended our hobby into sending up pico balloons. These are small balloons with very a light payload with a small microcontroller and transmitter for tracking purposes. Its a growing part of our hobby but at this stage it appears that the hardware is being built form scratch by most people.

The Tinyduino could be good for this purpose because its light, doesn't use much power and you can get a gps module for it.
 
But the missing link is a smaller transmitter module ideally for 434 mhz or one for vhf/uhf with the frequency user definable. As things stand a user would probably need to interface the tinyguino to something like this

https://www.sparkfun.com/products/retired/8946

If you could develop a small transmitter module it could be really useful for doing stuff like making gate openers as well. You embed the transmitter in a remote control housing and the receiver can drive the gate.

cheers
Peter VK3PB