Making a Yagi-Uda antenna
We use a 9 element Yagi-Uda antenna in our immobile system. The type of gamma-match we built in this…
Refined Parachute Testing
Our parachute design was tested with a dummy can filled with bolts weighing 350𝑔. It was dropped fro…
Building a Geiger-Müller counter
As we chose a Geiger-Müller counter for our secondary mission in order to measure the changes in bac…
LoRa radio system range testing
We conducted our first range test of the LoRa radio system. Our testing was done in an open field. U…
Upgrading the ground unit
From our mentor we received a new microcontroller: LoRa32 V3. This little device is not only more co…
New Secondary Mission – Geiger-Müller counter
After coming to the conclusion that our original secondary mission (Parafoil guided landing) was not…
Parafoil failure – New secondary mission
Our team’s original mission was a technical challenge, in which we attempt to guide the descen…
Breathing life into microcontrollers
The first tests of the BMP280 Sensor and the ESP32 microcontroller. There are many versions of the E…
Initial testing
LoRa SX1278 – radio transmitter A long range, low consumption, radio device. 2. Initial libraries an…