Hey guys and gals, I'm on a team at school called SLI and we design, construct and launch high powered rockets. Not your average estes rockets but ones literally 4-6" in diameter upwards of 6 feet tall and fly to over a mile (yeah 5,280') in altitude.
One aspect of our project this year is that were using gyros to control the assent of the rocket and in doing that we are also using two on-board cameras to keep an eye on everything and to help us guide it back (parafoil recovery).
Anyways what I need you all to help me with is something on the computer side of things. The recievers for the cameras use rca outs which isn't a problem at home because we just use a tv/vcr combo to watch and record, or we use a camcorder. A few months from now we are going to Huntsville, Alabama to launch for the Marshal space flight center (supplied funding for project this year and last year). What is the best way to convert the rca signal to something that we could use with our laptops? They are the school's laptops so a new video card is out of the question but I'm sure there's something like what scan converters do that would work for this. And what program would be our best option (or I should say your personal opinion) for watching and recording.
Thanks!
-Avery Henderson
Edison High SLI
Fresno, Ca.
One aspect of our project this year is that were using gyros to control the assent of the rocket and in doing that we are also using two on-board cameras to keep an eye on everything and to help us guide it back (parafoil recovery).
Anyways what I need you all to help me with is something on the computer side of things. The recievers for the cameras use rca outs which isn't a problem at home because we just use a tv/vcr combo to watch and record, or we use a camcorder. A few months from now we are going to Huntsville, Alabama to launch for the Marshal space flight center (supplied funding for project this year and last year). What is the best way to convert the rca signal to something that we could use with our laptops? They are the school's laptops so a new video card is out of the question but I'm sure there's something like what scan converters do that would work for this. And what program would be our best option (or I should say your personal opinion) for watching and recording.
Thanks!
-Avery Henderson
Edison High SLI
Fresno, Ca.