Good morning!

I'm glad to report that we are almost back in business, we have now printed all of the parts damaged in the fall, apart from the centerpiece. This has however gone through some changes that hopefully will not impact performance, but has reduced printing time from 8 to 5 hours. We have installed Teamviewer (A remote monitoring software) and a webcam on the computer connected to the 3D-printer, so now we can monitor it from our office. Or lab. Or whatever this should be called.

Screenshot showing the 3D-printing software along with the webcam stream from the computer. Here we recently started printing the centerpiece.

Today we have quite rainy weather here in the north of Sweden, but hopefully it will clear up after lunch when the centerpiece is ready, so that we can get it in the air again.


Emma also tested the reflashed GPS yesterday (We have started using the russian equivalent of GPS, the GLONASS) and is happy to report a mean error of 6m in urban setting. This is to be compared with the 15m that GPS gave. This is of course depending on how many satellites you are able to lock on.

She has also designed and printed a water-resistant case for the GPS module. I must say it is looking rather dashing with its plexi glass roofing!

GPS casing.