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A project log for Arduino rocket stabilization system [UD: 7/14/17]

Arduino powered rocket stabilization system for mid to high power rockets that gets rid of the pitch over and subsequent downrange flight

arseniodevArsenioDev 09/15/2015 at 01:140 Comments

As many of you have seen, I went to the DC Hackaday event and brought along the system to demonstrate and give a talk about. After fighting FTDIGate for a while, I eventually got the debug working and was able to present it without it giving me issues or the annoying "Harlem shake" bug. A recording of my talk is going to be at the bottom of this post where those who were not in attendance can watch it. At the moment, I am working on getting new servos and designing it into a test airframe for kinetic testing on a runway and/or a wind tunnel (If UMD will loan me some time on it). Later this week I'll be calling the local airport and the auxillary runway to see if they will let me drive a car with a rocket hung off the side down their runway at high speed (sounds crazy, is insane but hopefully will work with the power of "i'm doing a student project") More posts will be going up later this week to show the development.

Remember, past in-depth logs are on the blog.

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