Even though the covid times, the Picoballoon challenge in 2021 was planned on last Monday of June. As in previous year, I've started designing my very own picoballoon probe to participate in the challenge. The rules stayed the same, the probe has to weight below 20 g and has to report at least it's...

As in 2019 the Brno Observatory and Planetarium organised a Picoballoon Channelnge in 2020. It's a competition of high altitude ballon probes, the one that sends it's altitude as the last one wins. Each probe must weight under 20 g and share at leas an approximate altitude in the telemetry messa...

For some time I was looking for a GPS tracking solution that would run from a single battery for several days. Smartphones are too power hungry, all GPS loggers I found are designed to track animals, cars, etc. by sending positon on request over GSM, but there are no loggers that would just save GPS...