WRC Flight Computer

Building a flight data logger from scratch

Published on May 30, 2020

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As a member of Wildcat Rocketry Club, I took part in building several flight computers from scratch. After researching parts, our team made use of Altium Designer and KiCAD to design schematics, create footprints, and finalize the PCB layout. We assembled our boards and wrote C++ firmware (with some assembly embedded) which successfully recorded our flight data.

A Wildcat Rocketry 2-stage being prepared for flight