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1:16 am
April 24, 2010
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lane
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I found CSTART while browsing Reddit. I really like the ambitious goals you have and would love to help.
I have experience in electronics design, FPGA design, and system and application level software. I know various assembly languages, C/C++, C#, Python, Java, Verliog and VHDL.
Here is some of my relevant background:
I currently do system software work, but previously I spent 4.5 years working in my university's aerospace engineering lab (http://asl.wustl.edu). While there, I worked on several different projects, but spent most of my time on a pair of student built satellites named Akoya and Bandit. Initially, I worked on the ground station's software and radios. I then moved to spacecraft electronics and software. I became the embedded systems lead for the Bandit satellite and eventually both satellites. Some pictures of my designs can be found at the following sites:
https://asl.wustl.edu/wiki/Public/Power
https://asl.wustl.edu/wiki/Public/Sensor
https://asl.wustl.edu/wiki/Public/Command
https://asl.wustl.edu/wiki/Public/AVR
I loved working on a multidisciplinary team advancing space technology so I was thrilled when I found this group.
-Lane
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7:57 pm
April 24, 2010
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Luke Maurits
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Hi Lane, welcome aboard!
It looks like you have a wealth of relevant experience to the sorts of things CSTART wants to do.
It's unfortunate that you've found us at a time when the majority of the regular members and directors of CSTART are all tied up IRL. Sorry about the late response to your post.
The fact that you have worked on simple satellites before is incredibly useful to us. CSTART currently does not have any active satellite related projects (we recently tried to "adopt" the Reddit CubeSat project, but that project recently fell apart), although it seems like a lot of your knowledge and experience might port over well to our OHKLA project, especially with regards to avionics.
We will want to design an avionics unit for the OHKLA rocket nosecone which basically aggregates data from various sensors (GPS, MEMS accelerometers and gryos, barometric pressure sensors, etc.) and stores it on something like an SD card or a USB stick. There will also be the need for some sort of radio system for the purpose of reporting location (such as GPS coordinates) to facilitate recovery.
If this sounds like the kind of stuff you can/want to work on, let us know and we will definitely help to get you started. Nobody else on the team so far has much experience with electronics design, so you could be a real boon to that project and basically have a lot of free reign in making decisions in that sphere.
Welcome once again.
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Main CLLARE workgroups: Mission Planning, Navigation and Guidance. I do maths, physics, C, Python and Java.
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10:13 pm
April 24, 2010
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Luke Maurits
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An afterthought: I should emphasise that the very concept of a satellite project is not inherrently dead. If we can round up enough people with the interest and experience to be able to sustain the project ontop of our others, then I don't envisage much objection to starting one up again. We'd likely start with a CubeSat or something similar and go from there.
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Main CLLARE workgroups: Mission Planning, Navigation and Guidance. I do maths, physics, C, Python and Java.
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4:01 pm
April 25, 2010
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lane
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Thanks! That sounds like a fun project. I am also very interested in CLLARE. I figure some of the lessons I've learned over the past couple of years can be applied more generally to elecronics and computing in space.
I'd be interested in helping out with any satellite projects. For this group, I think they would serve as pretty good proving grounds for focused tests on components being designed for CLLARE.
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4:24 am
April 26, 2010
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Luke Maurits
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Great!
I am hoping to get the support of the other CSTART directors to shake our project structure up a bit soon so that there are more simple and accessible official projects to work on – things like a CubeSat or a sophisticated gondola for high altitude balloons, etc. For now, though, there is only OHKLA. If you want to help on that:
- You could try hanging out in our IRC channel, #cstart on the irc.freenode.net network and talk to people there about it, or
- (probably better) start making posts in the OHKLA section of the forum sharing your initial ideas and asking for feedback and more details on exactly what we need. You can also feel free to comment on any of the existing threads in there related to avionics etc.
If you need any additional guidance, please just ask! We are in dire need of people with your sort of skill set, so I'd love to see you stick around.
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Main CLLARE workgroups: Mission Planning, Navigation and Guidance. I do maths, physics, C, Python and Java.
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4:34 pm
April 27, 2010
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Rocket-To-The-Moon
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Welcome to the team! It is great to see someone with so much practical experience on the team. I have been devoting way too little time to CSTART over the past month or so. Hopefully I can get caught back up.
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Main Workgroups: Propulsion & Spacecraft Engineering
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