Year
2019
Technologies
Protoboard
Category
EmbeddedAeroSpaceNU
- As part of the NASA Student Launch Competition
- Goal was to launch a "Mars Rover", land it, drive it to an ice sample collection area, collect ice samples
- We designed a RHex-like rover with a parafoil that deployed ~600ft high to fly as close as possible to an ice collection area
- We needed to test the parafoiling part, so we attached our payload to our octocopter and took to the sky.
- We needed a quick test board for this for control and data acquisition, so off to the protoboarding I went.
- The board used an Arduino Nano for the IMU and accelerometer data, Pi Zero for SD card storage and was the main computer getting data from the Nano, a ESC for the propeller.