Whats new

I’ve finally managed to finish the pcb assembly of the revision 0.3 of the flight computer ! All sensor are working, pyro channels and pyro detection are also ready to be used.

It’s very pleasing to see this project taking the right way and starting to look like more a finished build rather than a mess of trials and errors !

The radio is working this time at 6dBm, and with some new inductances for the pi filter. The one that I used before were not correctly tunned in terms of inductance values for my needs.

Of all challenges I have to face in order to acheive a functionnal rocket flight computer, one of the hardest is for sure PCB assembly.

I’ve almost written the software in like 2 month, but the PCB part (design but also assembly) is stil in progress after 6 months.

Of course I cannot work all the time on this project, but stil, it’s a long road. I was really stucked and defeated after my first PCB prototype was untestable because of a lack of proper verification and common sense while designing it.

Making things

Well, it’s been a while since I’ve started this project !

In July of 2024, I realized that for a while I didn’t made something that require commitment, in a sense that my actual work (software developpement and cloud architecture) don’t require me to make technical decisions that cannot be quickly adapated/changed.

So I decided to build my own flight computer for model rocket (yes it’s a thing) !