j0nnymac's Podcast

7. Bluemix, band saws and The Beast

j0nnymac — Fri, 19 Jun 2015 16:50:45 +0000

In this episode the team talk about revised launch plans, a detailed overview of the weather balloon we will be hitching our payload to, band saws and The Beast. For more information see our blog - http://bit.ly/TheEdgeofSpace

6. Communications, and chase cars with IBM Messaging and Bluemix

j0nnymac — Wed, 17 Jun 2015 19:47:25 +0000

In this episode, the team from Imperial talk us through their communications configuration inc LORA, the plan for testing as well as the use of chase cars. For more information and to try MQ Light for yourself - http://bit.ly/mymqlight

5. How to tame your space probe with IBM Messaging and Bluemix

j0nnymac — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 16:14:24 +0000

In this episode the Imperial college team, talk about how they are using a pioneering CHIRP modulation protocol, go into a little more depth on how they are configuring two way communications with the space probe via Bluemix, and give an overview of the hardware configuration they have used to support it. I hope you enjoy it.

4. The Tweeting Space Probe

j0nnymac — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 13:55:17 +0000

In this the fourth installment of the Edge of Space podcast, the team from Imperial talk about the updated launch details, persuading a space probe to tweet, ensuring only nice tweets are sent to the space probe as well as information on how the website will show live progress of the launch.

3. Launching to the Edge of Space

j0nnymac — Thu, 28 May 2015 17:48:02 +0000

In this, the third installment of the Edge of Space podcast, the team from Imperial College talk over some of the practicalities of launching a probe to the Edge of Space. For more information go to our website: bit.ly/givememqlight

2. Messaging to the Edge of Space with Bluemix

j0nnymac — Sun, 24 May 2015 18:30:26 +0000

In this second installment of the Edge of Space podcast, the team from Imperial College delve a little deeper into the project. Here they talk about the IBM Innovation Center (a.k.a The Room), as well as giving a great overview of how they plan to use IBM BlueMix services such as IBM Messaging, Node-RED, Internet of Things and Watson. For more information see our MQ Light site here: http://bit.ly/givememqlight

1. Welcome to Edge of Space

j0nnymac — Fri, 22 May 2015 15:41:21 +0000

In this first installment a team of students at Imperial College undertake a project to send a probe to the Edge of Space, analyse the environment and represent the conditions both physically and virtually. This is their overview... Feel free to contact me @j0nnymac