Spud Launching

This week I’m trying out a different IMU, the MPU-9250. The Raspberry Pi communicates with this unit using the I2C protocol which is accessed through the GPIO pins on the Pi instead of USB. The purpose of the I2C protocol is to allow many peripheral devices to communicate with one or more controllers. On the…

This week I’ve started testing out the hardware components that will be used in my satellite tracking project. The first component I’m trying out is a GNSS receiver, specifically the ublox ZED-F9P. If you are like me and didn’t know this already, GNSS (global navigation satellite system) simply refers to “any satellite constellation that provides…

This week I’ll focus on the quick dive I’ve done into the Skyfield Python library and a simple visual test I did to see if results for tracking the ISS matched the various satellite tracking webpages. The Skyfield website has a great guide on how to track earth satellites in a couple different ways which…

This week I figured I would talk a little bit about the topics I have been researching while putting together my project plan. My project is an application to track satellites with HAM radio capabilities in an AR view of the sky, sort of like the Night Sky app. This would allow for a radio…

For my first blog post I figured I would say a little bit about myself and what excites me. I spent a lot of time as a kid making stuff and taking things apart. The challenge of making something work or figuring out why it worked was almost addicting and led me to make some…