This is a recording dual-deploy altimeter for high power model rocketry with integrated GPS and telemetry link.
Compared with v2 series, v3 includes a better GPS (uBlox v8 vs v7), the TI CC1200 radio used in our other products instead of the CC1120 used only in TeleMetrum v2 (more or less the same performance, but one less device driver for us to have to worry about!), and more accelerometer range with approximately the same precision.
There are a number of TeleMetrum customer and other videos on YouTube
There is a single manual for TeleMetrum and all other Altus Metrum products, which is available in html and pdf formats.
An outline of the board with drill hole locations is available in pdf format.
This board was designed using lepton-eda and pcb-rnd.
The hardware design files are available from git.gag.com in the project hw/telemetrum.
Work on the next version proceeds on the master branch, with occasional temporary branches created when Bdale is making some major / speculative change. Branched with names like 'v3.0' document what we're actually flying on the respective PCB revisions.
For those who don't have ready access to the gEDA suite, here are pdf snapshots of the files for Production PCB version 3.0 in more easily readable form.
Rockets we know of flying with TeleMetrum boards have exceeded 50g acceleration, been well above Mach 1, and reached altitudes greater than 25k feet AGL with great results. Keith's second generation ground station program called AltosUI works on Windows, Mac, and Linux systems and logs telemetry to disk, displays current and max values for key parameters during flight, includes voice synthesis during the flight so that our eyes can stay on the rockets, and even includes live display of rocket position over moving maps! After flight, altosui can extract the complete flight log from TeleMetrum, can display plots of the data from either the telemetry received by radio or the onboard flight log, can output a kml file for use with Google Earth, and can also output all the flight data as a csv file for easy import to spreadsheet programs or other analysis tools allowing you to perform whatever custom analysis you can envision! More details on the software, including full source code and pre-built packages can be found on the AltOS page on this site. Feel free to download the software and try it before purchasing our hardware!
