{"id":353,"date":"2011-08-10T22:40:22","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T05:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.happycapsule.com\/blog\/?p=353"},"modified":"2011-08-10T22:45:51","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T05:45:51","slug":"aprs-tracking-and-some-gratuitous-tweeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.happycapsule.com\/blog\/aprs-tracking-and-some-gratuitous-tweeting\/","title":{"rendered":"APRS tracking and some gratuitous tweeting!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.byonics.com\/\">Byonics<\/a> Micro-Trak arrived in the mail today so I set it up and took it for a test drive \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\nThe Micro-Track reads the location information from a tiny attached GPS and transmits it via ham radio and then magic happens and the data shows up on the Internet.<br \/>\nDuring the flight, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/happycooler\">HAPPy will tweet<\/a> it&#8217;s location, speed and altitude every 5 minutes so that you can follow along \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\nAfter the payload lands, we will (hopefully) find it using this APRS data.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/happycapsule.s3.amazonaws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Screen-shot-2011-08-10-at-10.29.32-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/happycapsule.s3.amazonaws.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Screen-shot-2011-08-10-at-10.29.32-PM-500x312.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"APRS\" width=\"500\" height=\"312\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.happycapsule.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Screen-shot-2011-08-10-at-10.29.32-PM-500x312.png 500w, https:\/\/www.happycapsule.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Screen-shot-2011-08-10-at-10.29.32-PM-1024x640.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.happycapsule.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Screen-shot-2011-08-10-at-10.29.32-PM.png 1680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A big thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/lessonplanet.com\">Lesson Planet<\/a> for sponsoring this critical component of the project!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Byonics Micro-Trak arrived in the mail today so I set it up and took it for a test drive \ud83d\ude42 The Micro-Track reads the location information from a tiny attached GPS and transmits it via ham radio and then magic happens and the data shows up on the Internet. During the flight, HAPPy will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.happycapsule.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.happycapsule.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.happycapsule.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.happycapsule.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.happycapsule.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.happycapsule.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.happycapsule.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.happycapsule.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.happycapsule.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}