Very cool experiment. It makes sense that the signal stays strong. The satellites are moving a lot faster than the car. I wonder if in the frame time it even notices the change in location.
17:38 - Just voided your warranty. 🤣Seems like the PCB traces for the left capacitor got affected... You completely macheted it. Woudl've been better if used the tried and true Dremel, have better control but would've taken a bit more effort with no damaged PCB.
Man, this video is pretty useful. To bad it was probably made a million yea-WAIT! 6 months!? That's recent history! I really hope the saga continues! I need advise badly.
I had a hail storm come through and now i loose signal from about 12 noon to 5 pm. Then it starts working again. I wonder if it damaged my board somehow. I didn’t have this problem before. I wonder if theres anyone who repairs them?
Mike awesome video - I did a semi DIY conversion - used the Starmounts 12V all -in-one . At first couldn't get it working as I was only using a 5 amp fuse to the hot side of the 12v supply . Then checked w Starmount and learned they specify using a 10amp - I had it working for a couple of days and I believe that I let it plugged in AND switched on when parking under my home carport. Is this something that would "fry" any component ? Now every time I turn on the 10a fuse pops almost immediately .
Do you have the heigh measurement of the board? I'm trying to work out how low profile a case I could build. But I wondered if you have the measurement before I break mine too! Any help would be appreciated! Do you think 15mm in total would be enough for the board and the cable to run freely?
You should continue to make your usual content because those seem to get 50 times more views than these or to put it in another way they get 5,000% more views and you will need that viewership to fund your endeavor
I think as soon as the roaming device stays in one location the service is sure to optimize. The best service clause is legalese ass covering for service while on the move.
It might be a lot more advanced, but an SSTV downlink via a ham frequency would be amazing. I've been using SSTV to get people and youth interested in radio. The looks of astonishment people make when they see an image being drawn from sound is truly a joy and the participants remember the experience for a lifetime. No matter what you put onboard itll be awesome and glad to see you back sir!
Dude make a self learning AI and put it in space! Im not sure what it would learn but it would definitely be the first of lots more powerful ones to come! Maybe like a solar powered GPU or something although idk how it would cool itself
Dude what the heck?? You're building your own satellite that's the coolest thing ever!!! It's soo good to see you again I missed you! Also more starlink videos please! : )
This will be a whole new level of education & understanding of satellite manufacturing, design & function. I'm very much looking forward to following your journey with this Mike. Cheers
Please document as much of this project as you can, super interesting! Yes, ham frequencies would be by far the easiest to use for a satellite, especially if you do a beacon. Can't wait! If you need any help with CAD or radios, I would certainly be willing to give it a shot. Nathan
Do you have an amateur radio license, if yes, then you can use the assigned amateur radio frequencies for space operation and you won't have to apply for commercial space radio frequencies. I've got my amateur advanced license in Canada, so let me know if you would like any help in that department. :-)
I am licensed, but I'll have to upgrade to get my advanced. And yes, I'd love all the help I can get! I think no matter what, I'd like to have a Morse code beacon on a ham frequency, just to maximize how many people around the world would be able to confirm reception! Something on 70cm I could pick up with my yagi would be cool :)
@@MikeOnSpace A simple morse code identifier should be very easy. I'd shoot for something a bit more interesting. Maybe a small camera sending back images and some simple telemetry, like battery voltage and temperature, solar panel power production and temperature. Maybe even 3d acceleration and roll rates. All of the above shouldn't be too hard, as it already data that every cell phone already has.
Hard to stay consistent with life keeping me busy, but I'm excited to be back! There's a lot to figure out, but thankfully there are a lot of resources out there :) Thanks for watching!
Back in the summer I had setup a ground station for the 70cm band and I was blown away by how many small satellites are up there these days. At any point of the day I could see atleast 2 or 3 signals on the waterfall if not many more. I just had a small Yagi antenna pointing at the the sky with a SAW filter and preamp feeding into an RTLSDR. A few years ago a group of us launched a weather balloon to the edge of space. Pictures the Raspberry Pi camera captured were amazing. We were lucky the farmer was nice enough to cut down the tree it landed in on his land out around Middle Musquodoboit. We would have never seen the pictures otherwise. Ever since I've wanted to find a way to transmit pictures down within amateur radio regulations at decent resolution and atleast one frame per second. It gets much more difficult to pull that off on a cube sat with the tight power budget, international radio regulations and doppler shift. But pictures from space, even from a tumbling satellite are amazing. High altitude balloons are a great way to test satellite hardware(and software). It has many similar challenges but is significantly cheaper than launching a cube sat. I can't wait for my boys to get old enough to have an interest in this stuff, my youngest is only 5 months old and my other is only 3 and a 1/2. So I have a long way to go. Since the second was born late this summer I have no time to do anything anymore.
Hi. I've just come across your video and though your idea is great. What if you created a cube sat that tested how much light is needed to make it visible from the ground at different parts of the day. You could also test which colors could be seen better if you used multicolor LEDs and test how many lumen are required to make it happen.
I love the idea of including a super-bright LED that could be seen from Earth. I recall reading that the first privately made cubesat was something like that. I'll see if I can find the details and maybe do a video! It would be very cool to be able to blink out a message that you could see from the ground :)
Yeah, I think that would be interesting. I've been thinking of a digital mode repeater, to store and retransmit messages as it orbits. Are you an operator yourself? I'll need to upgrade my license to Advanced as we call it in Canada - to allow me to transmit with a homebrew radio!
@@MikeOnSpace no clue 😂. I just remembered a story that the first person to put a DNS onto the moon may claim the .lun TLD. (Which might be wrong).. Layer 4 would be UDP. Then TCP, then probably not Wi-Fi.... The protocol itself is quite lean by design iirc. Direct access for sat nerds somehow. It would be fun if there was an Internet gateway so that average nerds like me could use it. Maybe against payment. Maybe with mailed/emailed certificates. I smell a finance opportunity.
I'd be happy to help with electronics design. I'm an EE with 35+ years of experience in many areas of electronics, with a major focus on embedded systems. Let me know if I can help. 🙂
Yeah for sure! I'm going to start the high-level component design soon, so feedback there would be awesome! I'm thinking about different formats for those details videos - do you think a live stream would be interesting for something like that? It would be cool to have some more interactive discussion!
@@MikeOnSpace I'm sure that a live stream would be nice for some. I've got an unusual schedule that seems to change quite a lot at the last minute, so that is not my preferred format. Most design work that I do seems to work nicely with email exchanges, as drawings and documents fit that format better than video chats. But this is your channel and your project, so let me know what you want and I'll do my best to help as I can.
