A sophisticated, custom 4-layer PCB designed in Altium to carry a highly efficient and powerful microcontroller plus the sensor suite for flight data collection.

• 4-layer board design in Altium
• Microcontroller + IMU/barometer sensor suite for flight data acquisition
• Power management for the whole avionics stack
• Evolving from our working Teensy 4.1 flight computer prototypes

The logic that drives the custom flight controller: collect data, preprocess it with filters, run real-time flight decisions, and record everything for post-flight analysis.

• Data acquisition from the onboard sensor suite
• Preprocessing: filtering and sensor fusion
• Real-time processing: TVC control, parachute deployment events
• Post-processing: SD card logging, metrics, flight plots

A two-way link between the rocket and the base station: not just downlinking data, but sending commands up. Separate hardware and software tracks working with Hardware Core on integration.

• Hardware track: comm modules, integrated into the main processing PCB
• Software track: custom test logic to stress modules and find edge cases
• Data collection and transfer in both directions
• Base station side of the link

This website: designed and maintained in-house by avionics members. The public face of the project for outreach, recruiting and sponsors.

• Next.js + TypeScript + Tailwind CSS
• Interactive Three.js launch zone built in-house
• Performance-budgeted to run on cheap mobile devices
• Content fully data-driven so updates never touch UI code

A Unity-based earth environment where the rocket is modeled as close as possible to what the structural team provides, and a custom RL agent learns propulsive landing. Policy weights would be exported via ONNX or TFLite for eventual deployment on the microcontroller.

• Unity environment: rocket model, spawn point, landing pad
• Custom reinforcement learning agent for propulsive landing
• ONNX / TFLite export of trained weights: planned
• Onboard deployment once the vehicle can support it: planned

Run by the leads and core members: public build logs, updates and event presence. Crew members contribute technically and help by reposting what we publish.

• Public updates on LinkedIn
• Build logs and milestones
• Recruiting and campus presence