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04/20/2024 Test Launch (RPi Pico)

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@dawsynth dawsynth released this 09 May 06:15
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This was the version of the Active Drag System that would have been used on the rocket flown in Birch Run, MI on 04/20/2024. Unfortunately, a weather scrub prevented the actual full-scale ADS testing. This version sees the use of a Raspberry Pi Pico over the previous Beaglebone Black in addition to IMU acceleration data fused with altitude data for algorithmic deployment based on the previous year's drag analysis equations. It also includes parallelized logging of data to an external EEPROM Flash chip. While modifications on this code may still occur, this version holds much of the primary spirit of the final version to be flown at the 2024 Spaceport America Cup.