News
13 November 2017
The new AIM USB 4 has been released! The new AIM USB is 100k feet capable and features 40 amp ejection transisters as well as a tinly 65mm x 25mm PCB size. The unit also includes a micro USB cable used with most modern phones.
25 January 2015
The new AIM XTRA 2.02 has been released. Included in the hardware upgrade is the MAX8Q GPS module - an incredibly accurate and sensitive GPS receiver. The new unit has much faster acquisition and improved lock!
08 June 2013
The new AIM XTRA 2.0 has been released! With it's amazing RF traceiver system and sensor platform, this is the ultimate flight computer for small and large rocket projects!
15 February 2013
The new AIM USB 3.0 has been released! It has plenty of new features including battery voltage and temperature recording. It is also smaller than the AIM USB 2.0.
20 February 2012
A new firmware version (2.02) has been released for the AIM USB. Some bugs have been fixed in this release and it is recommended that you update your units to this new version.
13 October 2011
After more than 2 years development, the AIM XTRA is here. The AIM XTRA is a complete GPS tracking solution for rocket and other specialist applications.
The XTRA is first commerical flight computer to use dopler readings for ejections, and vertical velocity readings.
13 September 2011
Cooperating with ADTV (Israel), Entacore Electronics has produced an advanced elevator sensor capable of determining floor levels without communicating with the building's elevator interface.
This was achieved with inertial sensors and infra-red refelectors.
Similar solutions have been designed, but none come can achieve consistent results for a large number of floors.
10 July 2011
We have just completed a doppler ejection test with the AIM XTRA (our GPS rocket tracking solution).
To perform the ejection at apogee, the AIM XTRA used doppler shift information from the GPS sattelites to determine accurate velocity (+- 0.5 m/s).
With accurate velocity, apogee ejection becomes trivial! As an added bonus, the maximum altitude is not limited by the atomosphere like barometric bassed altimeters.
We believe this is a first for a commercial model rocket flight computer!
08 July 2009
Apogee Components (USA) today added the AIM USB rocket altimeter to its list of products.
16 February 2009
We are currently in the process of designing a rocket tracker based on RF transmition.
Please contact us for more information.
28 December 2008
A new firmware version has been released (1.42) for the AIM USB 1.2 altimeter, which increases the accuracy of the altitude beep-outs after launch.
No more surprises when connecting to a computer to compare values!
05 July 2008
Aerospace Research (ASR) has performed a number of succesful launches with our AIM USB Altimeter. They are currently the leading supplier of amature and HPR rocket equipment in South Africa.
ASR stocks our AIM USB Altimeter.
16 June 2008
Our AIM USB altimeter is complete! The software for the device is undergoing continous enhancement.
Over 20 test flights have been done with a variety of ignitors and rocket motors, all performing flawlessly.
04 May 2008
The first commercial version was tested today. Once again complete success! The downloaded profile looks great!
15 March 2008
Today was the first test of the beta commercial release. Complete success! Both chutes were deployed correctly.
We will now continue to produce the commercial version as well as giving the software a decent upgrade.
06 December 2007
The basic hardware design is now complete for our altimeter which we have called "AIM USB". The user will have full access to all the data on the device (flight profile) as well as user definded settings.
05 February 2007
We are planning to design and create an altimeter for rocket enthusiasts in South Africa. We hope to reduce the cost as well as add features which are not usually found in comodity rocket altimeters
