Following are code snippets and commentary from my programming efforts. Most of the heavy lifting is the very handy orangutan-lib for the atmel atmega168, which you can download here. And much thanks to Tom Benedict, another KAPper, for all his help with this stuff.

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The controller is based on a simple serial control protocol.  There are four switches and a potentiometer on the landside controller, the state of each needs to be communicated to the kiteside controller.  Rather than use binary commands that I would likely not remember, I put together a very simple ASCII protocol.

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I’m putting together a KAP-oriented map of the Alameda NAS. I can’t link to it directly, since it violates the TOS of the map sources, but if you are a KAPper and are interested, drop me a line and I’ll send it to you.

(Above: Red line indicates power lines, blue line indicates fencing, blue area indicates off limits area)