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NASA Rover Drop Test PCB
NASA Rover Drop Test PCB

NASA Rover Drop Test PCB

Year
2019
Technologies
Protoboard
Category
EmbeddedAeroSpaceNU
Not jank.
Not jank.
The thing to the left is our payload.
The thing to the left is our payload.
  • 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.

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