• Microcontrollers / electronics basics
  • Arduino and Raspberry Pico lessons included
• Introduction to coding concepts
  • Variants in C and Python aailable
• Test the finished product in a high altitude balloon flight to the stratosphere (60-125k feet)
• Collect telemetry data during the flight
• Analyze collected data

Lessons will be broken up into short lessons students can work on by themselves or in small groups.

• Introduction and how to get started
  • Details about high altitude balloons
  • Introduction to electronics and components used in the project
• Blinking lights
  • Traditional first project with microcontrollers getting students comfortable with breadboards, components, microcontrollers, and loading code to the device
• Working with the weather sensor
  • Wiring up sensors to read temperature and barometric pressure
• Working with the GPS module
  • Wiring up GPS hardware to the microcontroller and reading satellite telemetry
• Working with the SD card module
  • Wire up SD card hardware and writing a file to the card
• Putting it all together
  • Wire everything up and see telemetry data logging to the SD card
• Analyzing telemetry and log data
  • Samples to interpret flight data

The content is divided up by language and within the language you can choose the platform (where applicable).

• C
• Java

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