The Arduino DAQ is a stand alone low fidelity DAQ system, it could be used
as a test stand or in a vehicle. If you are interested their are a number
of blog post on my website starting at
http://projectearendel.com/home/2015/01/igniter-test-stand-v1/
Lloyd
On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 9:02 AM, Monroe L. King Jr. <
monroe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Can you explain your arduino DAQ idea a little better? You want to use
them for DAQ and feed Labview with them or is this a on the rocket only
application?
The one area I seriously lack in is programming. If I had that skill I
could have solved a bunch of problems with the Pixhawk.
The Pixhawk is how I've done a lot of the more advanced guidance and
telemetry as well as simulation HW and SW in the loop stuff.
https://store.3drobotics.com/products/3dr-pixhawk
I've solved the long range video problem on the cheap with Narrow Band
TV much like the Apollo 11 used except even narrower bandwidth. The
video is not great but it is good enough for me and it is a good
affordable method and very low weight. I'll dig up some of the return
from 100kft video and you can see what you think.
Here is a youtube of some preliminary testing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rrhesQRLes
Sorry I strayed a bit. I have a tendency to do that.
How about what do you think about using a Pixhawk for DAQ?
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Subject: [AR] Re: Test Stand DAQ
From: Lloyd Droppers <ldroppers@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, December 16, 2015 12:28 pm
To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Yep, LabView coupled with National Instruments hardware is the defacto
standard, at least in the NewSpace section of rocket testing. The main
problem is the cost, which can be as low as ~$1000 for the extreme low
up to ~$5k by the time you were happy with the system for running arocket
test stand. If you go that route the cDAQ chassis and module system if aand
reasonable starting point
http://sine.ni.com/nips/cds/view/p/lang/en/nid/208990
I would highly recommend a microcontroller system though, especially if
your plan is to eventually fly the rocket, as you won't be flying a NI
board :) There are a lot of options, Arduino is probably the best known
it is a good bet for a start. I documented a very simple arduino leonardoprobably
base DAQ that might help you get started at
http://projectearendel.com/home/documentation/
Sensor arrays are not standard.
Lloyd
On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 6:56 AM, Pierce Nichols <piercenichols@xxxxxxxxx
wrote:
The most common software in the world for this sort of thing is
guy'sLabView. LabView is commercial software and its relentlessly visual
paradigm takes some getting used to for those more used to conventional
programming languages. That said, it's a very powerful tool and it
encapsulates a lot of tricky stuff.
As for common hardware and sensors... no.
-p
On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 9:47 AM, Monroe L. King Jr. <
monroe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Is there a standard DAQ and sensor array used by most of you guy's on
the list?
Is there a standard software used?
The reason I am asking is because I want to use what most of the
preferuse and understand. Sure I can come up with something but I would
something the most people could work with.