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Well, a couple months ago I decided to build a CubeSat to learn a bit more about them and collect data. It was powered by an Arduino nano and measured electromagnetic radiation, temperature, humidity, pressure, altitude, and light. It featured a fully working solar panel array, charge controller, and radio transmitter. However, due to radio license costs, I had to modify it to store data on an SD card for testing. I was about to test launch it on weather balloon but once again due to strict European launch regulations and the fact I was really busy moving I was unable to launch it. Here are a few pics of the initial prototypes
 I was also working on adding a CMOS camera but was having issues with power restrictions. However, as you can tell the initial board (can't find the pictures with all the sensors soldered) is not very neat and the 3d printed housing is not ideal. So I'm going to build a new satellite with a slightly different concept, the idea is similar to kicksat (http://kicksat.github.io/).
 

 
I would like to make the smallest satellite possible with as many sensors as possible and maybe even a camera, I will also design and manufacture the PCB with SMD components. So really its just a tiny PCB with solar cells, a chip (will most likely use an atmega) and a bunch of sensors, however, my ultimate goal is a CMOS camera.
 
For now, I'm the only person working on this project and I'm confident I can construct the initial prototypes and their corresponding software, however, I'm making this post to share the idea and see if anyone wants to collaborate. The ultimate goal probably isn't to launch this thing but to have fun along the way.
 
I might post updates on here or make another forum post. 
 
 
Best Regards,
Julian
 
 
 
 

I'm gonna be nitpicky. BTW this is farbetter than I could have done so pat yourself on the back frist.
 
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For your other pages (not index), you don't want to have the ".html" extension at the back
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Background white looks off... somehow.
No way to get back to root directory by clicking on logo in top-left
For the Phone button in "Contact Us", when you highlight it no circle comes out of the middle.
 

ok thanks good luck 

Depends on the lawn.

Speed will probably be the best. Lawnmowers don't really need or use a whole lot of torque to my knowledge.

1. Replacing your HDD with an SSD will speed up boot times, program loads and file loads, so yes, it will help.
 
2. The cheap end of SSDs around the 500GB mark is $120-130. I've got a 480GB SanDisk Ultra II that set me back $125 in a Dell Latitude E6410, and have zero complaints. It's not a Samsung 850 Pro or anything, but it's night and day compared to the 5400 RPM drive that was in there.
 
3. No. For all kinds of reasons, SSHDs are more or less just expensive hard drives. They do nothing for program or file loads, only theoretically helping boot times. I say "theoretically" because there's an algorithm on the drive itself that decides which files get moved to the 8GB of NAND space. You'd assume those would be OS files, right? I mean, they're only the most commonly accessed files on the whole disk, but the SSHD algorithm is clueless to that. I don't know what ends up on those 8GB NAND partitions, but it is not anything that would help speed the drive up. You pay more for less space with an SSD, but the experience is infinitely better. An SSHD isn't an upgrade at all, just a more expensive version of what you already have.

It's Blue.  That's for sure.

We have had good results with the WD Green SSD. Well priced and we have yet to have any computers come back 

slightly slower speeds. the 850 evo is $160 and is very good. there are plenty of good 500gb ssds for about $140

ok, thanks!

1. Sometimes. I don't have too much experience with server hardware.
2. userbenchmark.com and cpuboss.com
2a. ^^^ + gpuboss.com

Yes last gen stuff is just fine.
cpubenchmark website is good for cpus and gpus
 
just buy a used 4th gen intel they are cheap! Like $200 for a 4gen i5, a bit more for 4th gen i7.
Cant beat the price compared to new or build your own.
 

I think that this stack exchange thread has a really good reply to that:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3147744/should-i-use-managed-c-or-c-sharp-for-my-application

 
 

Not the best person too ask about programming, I can arduino but that's about it.
C# is easier but C++ can do more I think, they are quite similar.
C# was introduced by Microsoft as a competitor to java.
From what I've heard it Pro tv is goodfor learning many things, they sponsor many of the podcastsI listen to. They have a free trial too.
 
 
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A popular framework is Qt. Install Qt creator and a supported compiler toolkit and you're set.
The Qt website itself has some tutorials: http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtexamplesandtutorials.html
 
Although thorough C++ knowledge is required to get anywhere (that goes for any GUI framework), so perhaps it' better to study the language further first. 

C# most common use is going to be web, especially web for business. But don't be fooled, that isn't anywhere near it's only use.

However: C# is so much more than that: It is the flagship language in the .NET world. 

Since you're asking about Visual C++ and Visual C#, I think it's important to make sure that you know a few things about what .NET is, and why working with these languages is different than other languages, or other versions of them (in the case of C++).

What .NET really is is two parts:
The FCL or Framework Class Library, which is a very big library of code that Microsoft writes. This is perhaps the most attractive part of the .NET family. The CLR or Common Language Runtime. The CLR is really just a very nice JITC, or Just In Time Compiler, that consumes something called Common Intermediate Language and outputs machine code at runtime. The FCL is mostly available to all of the .NET languages. So you write a program in your chosen language (VB, C++, C#, F#) and then you compile it. At compile time, it is not compiled into machine code, it is instead compiled into something called CIL, or Common Intermediate Language. CIL is an object oriented language that the CLR can understand. At runtime (when you execute the program), the CLR is started up, and then it starts reading and compiling the CIL, turning it into machine code (Just In Time) and executing it. 

The CLR provides many services, but perhaps the most important is memory management (memory allocation and garbage collection). This means that you don't have to manually allocate and release memory (mostly).

This was a pretty simple overview, there is alot more to what's going on in .NET than this, but this is alot of what a beginner should know.