Hal Fulton wrote:
> mark wrote:
> 
>> ....gonna launch a computerized weather balloon, of couse!
>> And of course, I need to write the flight control software in Ruby,
>> because it is my favourite language.  Anyone know how to control a
>> digital camera from ruby (under linux...)
>>
>> Or, failing that, how to talk to a gps receiver?  I'll need to
>> communicate with muxes as well.
> 
> 
> I can't help you offhand, but I just wanted to say this is the
> coolest thing I've heard of in a month or more.

Ham radio geeks have been at this for a while:
http://users.crosspaths.net/~wallio/HABLinks.html

Also check out APRS: http://web.usna.navy.mil/~bruninga/aprs.html

Steve (N6UNI)