Arduino Model Rocket Flight Computer

This is a simple collection of programs written to collect data from a model rocket flight. The inspiration for this project came from ALTDuino.

Note: I only included the code the I wrote here. You will need to install the appropriate libraries to get this to work (e.g. Adafruit Sensor Libraries, SPIEEP, etc).

Software

There are three main programs needed to interact with the arduino:

• Rocket Runtime
  • Collects data from the various flight sensors
• Read Rocket Data
  • Reads data from memory and formats it
• EEPROM Cleanup
  • Resets the EEPROM Chip

I wanted to give a special shoutout to a bitbucket user spirilis for writing a totally awesome SPI EEPROM library that I was able to take advantage of. You can find his library SPIEEP here.

Hardware

The hardware for this project was fairly straightforward, and I was able to find them online quite easily. Here are the required components:

• Arduino Micro (ATMega32U4 Chipset)
• Adafruit 10-DOF IMU Breakout - L3GD20H + LSM303 + BMP180
• Microchip 25LC512 EEPROM
• Pololu 5V Step-Up Voltage Regulator U1V10F5
• 150 mAh 3.7V LiPoly Battery

Sample Data

See rocket.csv for an example of what the data looks like after being read from the Arduino.