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Phase 1
08/21/2014 at 02:10 • 0 commentsSpaceBots Phase 1 shall consist of the following: acrylic frame panels and braces, a combined temperature, pressure and humidity sensor, a 2.4GHz (ISM-band) transceiver, and an Arduino-capable microcontroller (most likely ATMEGA328 for now).
A consideration not to be forgotten is outgassing of potential platform materials. Through some research ti appears NASA keeps a rather detailed list of such things. Guess it's time to get reading.
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Comms. Considerations
08/21/2014 at 02:07 • 0 commentsSince there will undoubtedly be more than one of these SpaceBots! in operation, its logical that they should be aware of each other. This could be taken further, with a collaborative arrangement made between different SpaceBots!
Communications will probably be through cheap, readily available means in early phases, such as ISM-band transceivers or Bluetooth / BLE.
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Sensors
08/21/2014 at 02:03 • 0 commentsList of potential sensors (not in project phase order):
- temperature
- humidity
- pressure
- light (intensity, wavelength)
- accelerometer
- relative / absolute position
- visual (camera)
- audio (microphone)
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Overview
08/21/2014 at 02:01 • 0 commentsSmall, light flying robots designed for use in pressurized space environments. Main propulsion should be fans (though there may be problems with micro-gravity and inertial moments of fans). The first phase systems will use micro-controller development platforms (probably Arduino); later phases may transition to faster ARM architectures. The intent is sensing, so cameras, temp/humidity/pressure, light, etc. sensors are fair game.