Hello,
I'm launching a project in my spare time that some AMSAT members might be interested in. I'm a graduate student in Aerospace Engineering at Cornell, and I've been working on a ChipSat/Femtosatellite called Sprite for the last several years. I want to launch a CubeSat full of Sprites into low Earth orbit to demonstrate their viability in space. I'm raising money to build the hardware via the Kickstarter website (kicksat.org). Donors who sponsor a sprite will get to name it and specify the text that it will transmit. A group or club can also sponsor a fleet of Sprites together.
I'm doing this to try to get more people involved in spaceflight. I want to make it easy enough and cheap enough so that anyone can take part.
Please check out my page on Kickstarter for more information - kicksat.org
Thanks, Zac Manchester