I have previously written a few posts about the Cirrus project team and our goal to reach space. We are still experimenting with smaller scale amateur rockets, but are slowly building up 🙂 Hopefully I will soon find some time…
Category: Model rocketry
Simplest battery / power indicator circuit
So we usually want to have a battery indicator circuit in many of our devices. The indicator warns us if we have left the device powered and also indicates if the device battery is reaching its end of life. The…
Posted in Arduino, Electronics, Model rocketry Tagged with: battery indicator, led indicator, led power indicator, led zener resistor, low battery indicator, simple led circuit
Cirrus project aiming to reach space with amateur rocket
Cirrus project is led by a group of young enthusiast from Slovenian high schools and universities who are aiming to reach the space barrier with an amateur rocket. I am happy to be a part of the team 🙂 This…
Posted in Model rocketry Tagged with: amateur rocket, cirrus project, edge of space, model rocket, rocket 404, space, sugar rocket, sugar shot
Testing digital altimeter for project Rocket 404
During elementary and high school I was quite into model rocketry, building and launching a number of model rockets. Most of them were bulit around commercially available rocket motors. At that time some of my colleagues were building their own…