Joey R2 Stencils
The stainless steel stencils manufactured by Hackvana arrived today. Parts will be ordered soon ready for getting at least one board manufactured and running in the coming week. Some pictures of the stencil:
Joey R2 PCBs
The PCBs for the second revision of the Joey-M flight computer have arrived from Cambridge Circuit company. This revision carries some minor fixes from the first as well as the addition of the new CUSF logo to the rear silkscreen. Thanks once again to Cambridge Circuit Company for these fantastic boards.
Cambridge University Societies’ Fair
We will be at the Societies’ Fair at the Kelsey Kerridge sports centre all day today and tomorrow. Please do come and along and say hello!
Joey-M Hardware Complete
The Joey-M flight computer was soldered up this week, all going fairly well apart from some minor rework required on some of the finer pitched components. Joey-M uses the uBlox NEO-6Q GPS with a Sarantel SL1202 passive antenna, along with a small I2C EEPROM such that configuration can be retained when Joey is powered off. …
Joey-M PCBs Arrived
We got the PCBs for the Joey-M flight computer! These are experimental flight computers using the Micrel crystal pulling radio (see an earlier blog post), along with an Atmel AVR and a uBlox NEO-6Q GPS. Thanks very much to Cambridge Circuit Company for manufacturing these PCBs for us!
New Website
After a long time working on it, we launched our new website yesterday. We hope the change makes the site more user friendly and easy to navigate. We’ll be adding more content over the next few weeks. Thanks to everyone on the CU Spaceflight team who was involved with the new site, we think it has …
Team Meeting
We have some new members working on new Arduino trackers, following in the footsteps of the very successful Weasel project last year. In the vein of ramping up work on rockets this year, some have been ordered! We’re getting a LOC Precision ISIS, a LOC Precision Caliber ISP and a LOC Precision Bruiser EXP. Hopefully …
UKHAS Conference
Several CU Spaceflight members attended the first annual UKHAS conference in Islington, London this weekend. Jon and Adam gave a talk introducing the society and the new Wombat radios and flight computers which are currently in development. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qSL16h0W0I[/youtube] This was followed by Ed’s talk on the Squirrel smartphone flight computer project. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3Mh4j2Cw9M[/youtube]
Nova 19 Recovered
After four months in a tree in Exning, the Nova 19 payloads (Squirrel and Weasel) have been recovered thanks to the help of some local tree surgeons. The Weasel payload with its Canon A560 camera took some stunning photographs. See all of the Nova 19 images on Flickr. The Squirrel Nexus One smartphone was also …
Micrel Prototype Radio
One of the current projects is to build a radio module to be a replacement for the excellent, but large and expensive, Radiometrix NTX2. A first prototype uses the Micrel MICRF112 10mW FSK transmitter with a varactor controlled crystal pulling arrangement. An onboard variable capacitor also allows tuning of the centre frequency to anywhere in …