- 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).
- Report an issue by clicking the issue link towards the top of the page