Rocketeering
Building a customised 1/4 scale patriot rocket
Project maintained by shaunlowis Hosted on GitHub Pages — Theme by mattgraham
Custom Avionics
Overview
In depth documentation is available in the FC_dev branch of this repository.
Flight computer:
- Power via battery.
- MCU: STM8.
- LoRa Radio.
- GPS.
- Altimeter.
- IMU.
- Pressure sensor.
- SD card.
Additional electronics:
- Separation charge (comes with motor).
- Thermocouple (being read by flight computer).
Pictured is the revA of the PCB.
Here is the mostly assembled version, used for software development.
Design
KiCAD 7 was used for designing the electronics for the flight computer. The design process is pretty well illustrated by the git graph, a nice view is shown with:
git log --pretty=oneline --graph --decorate --all