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inspireFly_Cubesat_Payload_Controller

layout: project_template title: Power Supply description: Payload Control for inspireFly's cubesat, ContentCube-1 date: 2022-10-31 02:31:00 hero_image: image: hero_height: is-small hero_darken: true tags: project series: amp_lab_project author: inpsireFly show_sidebar: false

Members

Joe Esser, Electrical Engineering Student (2024) [email protected]

Repo Link

Inspire Fly Payload Control

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Mentor

Richard Gibbons, Direct PHD

Current Status

Just Starting

Project Overview

This project is about designing, manufacturing, and testing a payload control board for a 1U cubesat. The board will control a camera, display screen, and deployable boom.

Educational Value Added

This project will teach students about advanced power systems concepts, such as DC-DC converters, how electronics in space work, and how to get multiple microcontrollers working together. Additionally, students will learn how to create circuit schematics and PCB board designs that are used to manufacture a product.

Hardware Tasks

  1. Finalize board schematic
  2. Construct PCB
  3. Populate PCB
  4. Test PCB's functionality

Software Tasks

  1. Establish functionality between the camera and microcontroller
  2. Establish functionality between the display screen and microcontroller
  3. Have the microcontroller control the camera and display screen simultaneously, and take a picture of the display screen
  4. Transfer the picture to a different microcontroller.

Design Decisions

  1. Using BroncoSpace PROVES kit as the base of the satellite. Need to conform to their system.
  2. Using a Arduino for the microcontroller
  3. Using the OV5642 Camera
  4. Using the Adafruit OLED Breakout Board for the screen

Design Misc

Steps for Documenting Your Design Process

BOM + Component Cost

To be determined

Timeline

10/9/2023 Update Github 11/1/2023 Have a fully functioning software suite (breadboard setup) 11/1/2023 Have a fully functioning PCB design (electrical connections) 11/15/2023 Have the software running as expected on the PCB board

Useful Links

https://www.broncospace.com/ https://github.com/proveskit

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