It Begins
Sunday, 18th September 2005 at 2:39PM (1160 days ago)
When I finished the arcade machine I had all sorts of different ideas for what my next little project would be. Again it was Renae that put me onto the idea for my next project. Building a rocket.
My plan is to build a 2 or 3 stage rocket with an inbuilt CCD video camera, altimeter and flight information recorders. After much research and i've found there are several ways to approach the project. Since I haven't really got any previous rocket experience I picked myself up a basic kit today.
The kits themselves are dirt cheap and generally come with everything you need, except the engines. These weren't an issue either I picked myself a setup of 3 - B6-6 engines which should propel my kit to about 250-300ft.
Of course when I saw they had a yellow one, I couldn't resist, it's a pity about the glittery crap in the middle, but hey it's a kit :)
There are several ways that I can approach the video side of things, one of them is through the use of a 2.4Ghz video transmitter and a pre-amp on the ground to boost the signal. The only trouble with that is that i'm looking to get my rocket very very high. Time will tell!