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STARLIGHT - A Raspberry Pi RP2040 board for rockets

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 06, 2023

Red Hat: Anaconda Advanced Partitioner, Packit, Fedora, and Python Containers

Software: Security Tools, Filen-desktop in PCLinuxOS, and Screenshots Capture

Circuit Wizardry’s STARLIGHT is a rocket control board based on Raspberry Pi RP2040 microcontroller and designed for small 75mm model rockets. The board features rocket control-specific I/Os such as Igniter and Ejection pins each connected to a MOSFET, two headers for 5V servos, plus some sensors and 3.3V or 5V GPIOs for expansion. STARLIGHT specifications: Microcontroller – Raspberry Pi RP2040 dual-core Arm Cortex-M0+ MCU @ 133 MHz with 264KB SRAM Storage – 16MB flash for firmware and flight data USB – 1x Micro USB port for programming Rocket control Igniter via 2-pin terminal block and AO3400 MOSFET (pulse current up to 30A) used with ignition systems to automatically light your engine.

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