We are making plans that will require electronics that determine the current altitude, control the ascent, and finally release a parachute on the way down.  We will need some additional funds for these electronic items.

The heart of the advanced rocket design is the Programmable Interface Controller (PIC).  Read about it at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIC_microcontroller.

To get this going we ordered and received a PIC16F690-I/P from www.microchip.com.

Here is our pseudo-code for the electronics.