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H2O_Rocket

pic can not be displayedThis is the state diagram of the water 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