The
San Diego Space Society was founded in 2008 with the purpose of raising
awareness and educating the general public to the benefits of human
exploration of space and San Diego's role in space development, as well
as to the idea of creating a spacefaring civilization within our
lifetimes.
SD Space meets monthly at the Serra Mesa Branch Library and participates in space-related events around San Diego Country and Southern California. The general public is welcome to attend any meeting listed on this site.
Location: Balboa Park Activity Center 2145 Park Blvd, San Diego, CA
The 56th Annual Greater San Diego Science and Engineering Fair will be held on March 23 – 28, 2010. Judges from the San Diego Space Society will present awards to outstanding space-related projects at the Fair.
The event is not open to the public, but SD Space award winners will be featured on the website and invited to present their projects at Yuri’s Night San Diego.
Posted by Adrian Clausell in Projects on January 10, 2010
[Editor's note: Adrian did an amazing job constructing our new AstroLynx rover, a Lynxmotion robotics platform donated to The Mars Society - San Diego by Project ASTRO. The rover, a telepresence rig intended for outreach presentations, was presented to SD Space at the December program meeting.]
This is the final development update for the AstroLynx rover. The rover is now fully operational. With a temporally very cheap 2.4 GHz 9V battery wireless camera wire tie-clip attached, it has now finished its first remote-controlled “exploration” of my back patio. Some video:
The camera platform, as you can see from the video, tracks the Y axis of the gripper and also has an independent ~140° left-right panning angle. The system has a set of redundant double batteries for the motor drive, one main 2800 mAh @ 12V (2 x 6V 2800 mAh’s in series) and a backup 12V 1800 mAh battery. With these it should be good for more than 2-3 hours steady run time. The RC receiver, gripper, and camera pan/tilt servos are run with the remaining third 6V 2800 mAh battery. A second battery position at this site is available for a future 6V backup placement. Charging is pretty quick (less than 2 hours) and takes place when both circuits are off and dual SmartChargers are plugged into the charging plugs on the main deck.
This current configuration now leaves free an available 12V 1800 mAh battery to run a decent future camera and transmitter to be placed externally on board at a later date.
Posted by Chris Radcliff in Calendar, Projects on August 12, 2009
Sun,Aug30,2009
12:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Location:
Gerry Williams’ Studio 106 (map) 2323 Broadway, San Diego, CA
Get together with other SD Space members to work on space-related projects.
This month, Dr. Philip Blanco from Project Astro will be presenting the Mars Society with a new Lynxmotion rover to add to their growing fleet of Mars rovers.
The 56th Annual Greater San Diego Science and Engineering Fair will be held on March 23 – 28, 2010. Judges from the San Diego Space Society will present awards to outstanding space-related projects at the Fair.
Get together with other SD Space members to work on space-related projects.
