h2o_rocket:h2o_rocket
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H2O_Rocket
19.01.2020 - First launch of the upgraded water rocket v2.0
Many improvements were made including
- New fin design (mechanically much more robust)
- Electronics payload compartment accommodating, accelerometers, gyroscopes, magnetometer, barometric pressure sensor, 2MP camera, LiPo battery and charge controller, a servo and a WiFi enabled ESP8266 32bit Microcontroller acting as the on-board computer
- Spring loaded parachute, deployed at apogee using a servo (apogee is detected via the rockets attitude determined from magnetometer data)
07.06.2020 - launch series of the upgraded water rocket v2.5
The changed to the v2.0 model included
- New 30'' nylon parachute (the bin liner version didn't support the acting forces)
- Rubber band shock absorber in the parachute harness
- Adjustments to the parachute release point
- Improvements in the on-board software
- changes to the nozzle design as the epoxy didn't withstand the pressure
- rubber gaskets were added to the tornado couplings between the sections
- added another bottle section (new volume → see below)
- adjustment on the launchers nozzle latch to support the new nozzle design
- repairs of damages due to rough landings from previous flights
- higher pressure at launch up to 110 psi
Datasheet
- total volume: 4.73 l
- empty weight: 426 g
- parachute diameter: 760 mm
- nozzle diameter: 9 mm
- height: 1320 mm
Date TBD - launch series of the upgraded water rocket v2.6
The changes planned include
- increased nozzle diameter of 10 mm (drilled open)
- Improvements in the on-board software
- increased sensor data rate
- replace RGB camera which was read by the onboard computer directly with a standalone HD camera (including SD card - just activated by the onboard computer) which saves computational resources
- Launch tube
h2o_rocket/h2o_rocket.txt · Last modified: 2023/07/22 11:50 by midiwidi