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Ashwin Gupta
05:50
its been too long
nobody remebers me prob
Downgoat
@AshwinGupta yes we do :)
Ashwin Gupta
:)
@Downgoat what does OnionNotOnion do?
i stumbled across ur github again lol
Downgoat
@AshwinGupta its a classifier for a challenge by Mego to detect if a post is from the satirical website The Onion or just a normal (crazy-sounding) headline
Ashwin Gupta
lol i c
Downgoat
@AshwinGupta any particular reason you've been taking a break?
Ashwin Gupta
05:55
well
ive basically been CRAZY insane busy after schools since high school started
Downgoat
@AshwinGupta you are in CA too right?
Ashwin Gupta
yeah
i was doing robotics really competetively, my team actually won CA state championship so cal. So that ate a lot of time
and during the summers I was studying for ACT and shit
Downgoat
@AshwinGupta :o wow thats impressive
Ashwin Gupta
nah it wasnt
Downgoat
meanwhile my school's VEX team has not been able to win a single competition >_<
it's pretty sad :P
Ashwin Gupta
05:56
Lol
=/
where r they located?
lol do they want a carry?
Downgoat
@AshwinGupta this is what a good student would do but why study for SAT when you can be on PPCG :P
Ashwin Gupta
anyway im not doing vex this year
doing FRC
lol true.
Downgoat
@AshwinGupta we live up in east bay
Ashwin Gupta
oh yeah im down south of LA
Downgoat
@AshwinGupta i looked at your profile.. you worked on a cubesat :OOOOO
Ashwin Gupta
05:58
yep that too
still working on a cubesat actually
Downgoat
that's really cool
Ashwin Gupta
yeah, I learned a lot of EE stuff from that
Downgoat
i live in the richest county of CA and yet my school can't afford paper towels much less a cube sat program ;_;
Ashwin Gupta
LOL
the cubesat program im in is shared between 5 schools actually
but lucky me, my school is avionics
which means I basically get to manage all the software stuff, write code, and work on the flight boards.
Downgoat
wow that's really cool
Ashwin Gupta
06:01
and don't forget WHAP
yeh so there u go, that + robotics is basically where i've been
hmm that sent twice
Downgoat
@AshwinGupta u doing apush this year
Ashwin Gupta
yep
Downgoat
haha same >_<
Ashwin Gupta
lol
lovely
btw does the 19th byte still exist?
nvm found it
Downgoat
@AshwinGupta XD
Ashwin Gupta
06:03
well anyawys
Downgoat
ok now I totally want to try to get a cubesat club at my high school going XD
Ashwin Gupta
oh yeah you should
my best advice though-
its a bit more expensive but its totally worth it to go full USB connections
managing 8 different serial protocols for various things is a pain in the ass
we have DSA sensors hooked up via SPI, Thruster on i2c, panel GPIO, magnetoruqer on i2c dac
etc. etc.
Downgoat
@AshwinGupta did you guys program w/ C++?
Ashwin Gupta
mostly C/C++ yeah
Downgoat
@AshwinGupta and here i am thinking wiring up a radio with I2C is hard :P
Ashwin Gupta
06:06
actually for our radio we didnt implement the low level
we got software from CalPoly SLO
that they use for their cubesat radio
radio is pretty much the hardest thing to work with.
Downgoat
what about on the ground for receiving?
Ashwin Gupta
Well we work very closely with CalPolySLO
and IVC
they have ground station
but im not 100% familiar with the setup for that actually. I'm not on team communications.
Downgoat
@AshwinGupta how much did ur cube sat cost
Ashwin Gupta
in 10s of thousands
our mentors only know the exact number though
obviously students are not trusted with such information lol
Downgoat
@AshwinGupta do u know who organizated it at your school district?
Ashwin Gupta
06:10
yes
it was actually initially a parent volunteer
Rocket Lab to launch IRVINE01 from Irvine High School students
►
thats us
im not in that video tho lol
Downgoat
why tf can my school not be this awesome
Ashwin Gupta
actually i lied i am in that video apparnetly
just the back of my head
yah its pretty cool
anyways ill ttyl i need to sleep now
i need to prepare for SAT math 2 on sat lol
Downgoat
@AshwinGupta oh so did rocketlab give u guys funding?
Ashwin Gupta
I think they helped us out
with some of the cost
but not completely
we were supposed to launch a few months ago actually but now are launch is in November.
heres a decent pic of our satelite when stowed (no panels extended)
twitter.com/tinhtranUNITE/status/954525876325990400/photo/…
the dude on the right is me
Downgoat
brb creating lobbying effort to buy cubesat for our school
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