Hi Matteo, This is the kind of initiative that we need to get more people involved with NuttX.
For sure all the sensors drivers, documentation, etc will be very helpful, thanks for helping us. I'm CC professor Andrew from PSAS (https://www.pdxaerospace.org), his team goal is to create some amateur rocket able to put some cubesat in orbit. Everything he and his teams do is open-source and I think there could be some synergy between your team and his team. I think besides the NuttX Channel your team could use the series of tutorials I'm creating at EmbeddedRelated: https://embeddedrelated.com/showarticle/1689.php Kudos again for your nice work! We really appreciate all things you have done and the things you are doing (including the port of NuttX to the Raspberry Pi board). BR, Alan On Wed, Sep 25, 2024 at 7:36 PM Matteo Golin <matteo.go...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > My name is Matteo, and I am a lead on Carleton University's rocketry > engineering design team (called CU InSpace). We're > based out of Ottawa, Canada and we design and build high powered sounding > rockets every year. We typically fly two > rockets each year, one at the Spaceport America Cup competition in New > Mexico, and the other at Launch Canada in > Timmins, Ontario. > > The team I lead specifically is our avionics team. This team is concerned > with all flight critical electronics, which > includes a telemetry flight computer, deployment of our recovery systems, > altimeters, GPS tracking, etc. Also new for us > this year is the design of a control system for our student designed > hybrid rocket engine, which has stringent control > requirements set by our competitions. > > We had previously used the QNX RTOS for our telemetry system last year, > but this year we have made the decision to > switch to NuttX because it is open source and much better suited to the > embedded systems we design. NuttX will be > running on our flight computer this year, and possibly as part of our > hybrid rocket engine control system. > > All students on the team this year so far will be using NuttX for the > first time ever, outside of myself who only has > very limited experience with NuttX from making some minor contributions. > We have students from every stage of their > undergrad and in multiple programs, not just engineering. It is likely > that we will encounter some hurdles while > developing our systems on NuttX for this year. > > I have instructed members to re-contribute all of our meaningful work back > to the upstream repository to help continue > building the NuttX infrastructure. I expect that you will see several PRs > to add more sensor drivers and radio module > drivers to the kernel as we develop our systems throughout the year. Some > members have already been interested in > contributing to the documentation to help others getting started from > scratch have a smoother process (yesterday we had > roughly 35 students all installing NuttX for the first time). > > We may also be reaching out through the GitHub issues or through this > mailing forum to get help on development hurdles. > Our design is very early in the year and we're picking exactly which > MCU(s) and which peripherals we'll be using, so we > may reach out to ask questions about the supported MCUs if we can't find > what we're looking for in the docs. Of course, > we'll be happy to formally write out any information we receive in the > docs when we receive it! > > This email is intended to serve as a heads up, as I'm aware from other > discussions on this forum that there has already > been a large influx of PRs recently. I have asked members to specifically > mention in their PRs that they are from > InSpace in case anyone is curious about what we're contributing or how > NuttX is being used for amateur rocketry. > > In addition, I also wanted to provide a heads up in case NuttX would like > any promotional materials from InSpace. We're > happy to provide some photos, video, etc., of students using NuttX for > development and to show off our systems. We know > that NuttX is a growing community and we're happy to spread the word about > it as well. Every year at Spaceport America > Cup there are more than 150 international educational institutions who > come and compete. As far as I know, last year no > one had been using NuttX for their rocket. We're hoping to start a trend! > > If there is anything I've overlooked or that you might suggest as we start > writing code for NuttX, please let me know! > If you can think of any outreach initiatives InSpace could help with, let > me know as well and we'll see about making it > happen. > > You can learn more about us here: https://www.cuinspace.ca/ > You can learn about Spaceport here too: https://spaceportamericacup.com/ > > Thanks for the incredible RTOS, we're looking forward to using it! > > Matteo >
