Lessons Learned
- Switches on payloads
- buzzers on payloads
- Use old army weather balloons upside down?
- Always on radio beacon
- code that will always try to relay useful info, no matter what has failed
- External status leds, or a button to demand the radio send what it has right now - for launch crews
External Power so payload can be powered up long before flight for full checkout. Use something like this: http://nz.element14.com/linear-technology/ltc4412is6-trmpbf/ic-power-path-controller-tsot23/dp/1663918