Featherweight Altimeters LLC is a small business dedicated to providing the world's best electronics designed for amateur rocketry.
Its founder is Adrian Adamson. When not spending time with his family, enjoying the outdoors, designing altimeters, flying rockets, Adrian can be found at his regular job at Deep Space Systems, designing avionics for interplanetary satellites and the high-definition camera system for NASA's Orion spacecraft. Adrian is a mechanical engineer by education, but started playing with accelerometers in the winter of 2006 to teach himself about electronic design. By the summer of 2007, he created the Parrot altimeter to collect lots of interesting data from little rockets. The Raven altimeter was released in late 2009 and since then over 3000 have been sold. In the meantime, Adrian has exceeded Tripoli altitude records in F, G, I, and J single-motor classes, and set official Tripoli H-impulse altitude records for H impulse (14,818 feet). and L impulse (32,032 feet). He continues to push the envelope with high-performance multi-stage rockets, including the L class flight pictured at left, from BALLS 2009. His interest in high performance rocketry has been a key motivator that has driven the Featherweight altimeter designs to be smaller, more accurate, provide more data, and be compatible with smaller batteries.
Its founder is Adrian Adamson. When not spending time with his family, enjoying the outdoors, designing altimeters, flying rockets, Adrian can be found at his regular job at Deep Space Systems, designing avionics for interplanetary satellites and the high-definition camera system for NASA's Orion spacecraft. Adrian is a mechanical engineer by education, but started playing with accelerometers in the winter of 2006 to teach himself about electronic design. By the summer of 2007, he created the Parrot altimeter to collect lots of interesting data from little rockets. The Raven altimeter was released in late 2009 and since then over 3000 have been sold. In the meantime, Adrian has exceeded Tripoli altitude records in F, G, I, and J single-motor classes, and set official Tripoli H-impulse altitude records for H impulse (14,818 feet). and L impulse (32,032 feet). He continues to push the envelope with high-performance multi-stage rockets, including the L class flight pictured at left, from BALLS 2009. His interest in high performance rocketry has been a key motivator that has driven the Featherweight altimeter designs to be smaller, more accurate, provide more data, and be compatible with smaller batteries.