The Mid month meeting was very productive indeed! We are going to have another panned rerun of last years hot air balloon launch at this year’s Telford Balloon Fiesta followed by a proper launch the weekend of the 1st of June. Several more have volunteered to help track the balloon after launch and to this aim we are going to make the equipment available at all meetings between now an then in order for those concerned to test their receiver setups.
We need more questions and ideas for the end of Month PHP talk , remember more input the more beneficial the talk. On a similar note please put onthe list any Linux questions you would like answered by a further talk by Lee latter on in the year!!!!!
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It’s mid -March and the weather is improving, April will hopefully be balloon weather and this is the meeting where we arrange the final purchase of the 2nd balloon and the Hydrogen lift gas. The payload is a raspberry pi packed full of sensors, a camera and telemetry to give location and basic sensor values, more detailed images are stored on the package to be examined after splashdown. We will be looking for additional volunteers to track the balloon come late April. Bring your other projects so we can talk about them and maybe even help in moving them on. As usual the meeting is 7pm at the
The highly resilient computers were sent up some 530 days ago and are still working. Their mission was to test the reliability of conventional server technology in space something that will become more important on longer space voyages where access to earth bound compute resources will be difficult or even impossible. These servers are based on conventional technology but have a custom cooling solution consisting of a air tight enclosure and a radiator connected to the ISS’s cooling system. Originally they had a return ticket to fly back on the failed Russian Soyuzin Oct’18 but are now HPE are hoping for June’19 
I’m pleased to announce that Shropshire LUG has recently joined the O’Reilly partner program. Expect more information from this supporter of Open Source as well as Reviews, Discounts and Conferences not too mention more cute animal logos.
February’s Mid-month event is almost upon us (14/02/19 Thursday) at the usual location of
