Countless times We've seen discussions on how various flight controllers work. How they calculate altitude/apogee. How their pyro outputs work. All these discussions end without any real resolution because the manufactures keep the details of their design and implementation secret in order to gain a competitive advantage.
The flightcon project aims to bring the Open Source design philosophy to rocket electronics. We publish the schematics to all our hardware and the source code to all our software. People are encouraged to review our algorithms, find weaknesses, and suggest or implement solutions. We believe that this approach will lead to a much higher quality flight controller and a much higher level of understanding about it's operation within the rocketry community.
- 3 high current pyro channels
- seperate pyro power input
- 45,000 ft barometric alititue (>75K next rev)
- 50G accelertaion (100+ options to come)
- microSD card used for configuraion and data logging
- built in USB interface
- 50Mhz 32bit ARM processor for high precision calculation
- board brought up
- FAT filesysem support on microSD card
- data logging to microSD
- barometic pressure reading
- acceleration pressure reading
- altitue calculation
- apogee detection
- configuation file support
- pyro channel validation
- pyro continuity and voltage sense
- pyro continuity detection
- pyro trigger
- usb interface
- EVT2 schematic
- EVT2 layout
- EVT2 build