This is an impressive achievement Matteo! Thanks for sharing the interesting project and for spreading the information about our Open Source project and community
Best regards Alin On Mon, 30 Jun 2025, 20:41 Tomek CEDRO, <to...@cedro.info> wrote: > Amazing work Matteo! Congratulations to You and the whole Team! Please > keep us updated.. and remember Have Fun!! =) > Tomek > > On Mon, Jun 30, 2025 at 7:20 PM Matteo Golin <matteo.go...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Wanted to share some footage of Carleton University InSpace's successful > static fire test of our hybrid rocket motor. The control system for the > rocket engine was built entirely on top of NuttX, including pressure, > temperature and thrust monitoring as well as control of our fill plumbing. > Here are some videos we took: > > > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIVaZj9_kv8 > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcPJ-uTOkw8 > > > > And an image showing our student-built test stand featuring NuttX's logo > as one of our sponsors, since the contributors here have dedicated so much > time to both making NuttX and helping answer our questions > > > > On Mon, Jun 30, 2025 at 1:18 PM Matteo Golin <matteo.go...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > >> Wanted to share some footage of Carleton University InSpace's > successful static fire test of our hybrid rocket motor. The control system > for the rocket engine was built entirely on top of NuttX, including > pressure, temperature and thrust monitoring as well as control of our fill > plumbing. Here are some videos we took: > >> > >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIVaZj9_kv8 > >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcPJ-uTOkw8 > >> > >> And some images showing our student-built test stand featuring NuttX's > logo as one of our sponsors, since the contributors here have dedicated so > much time to both making NuttX and helping answer our questions > >> > >> On Mon, Jun 30, 2025 at 1:05 PM Matteo Golin <matteo.go...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >>> > >>> Wanted to share some footage of Carleton University InSpace's > successful static fire test of our hybrid rocket motor. The control system > for the rocket engine was built entirely on top of NuttX, including > pressure, temperature and thrust monitoring as well as control of our fill > plumbing. Here are some videos we took: > >>> > >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIVaZj9_kv8 > >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcPJ-uTOkw8 > >>> > >>> And some images, showing both "Mach Diamonds" as well as our > student-built test stand featuring NuttX's logo as one of our sponsors > since the contributors here have dedicated so much time to both making > NuttX and helping answer our questions. > >>> > >>> Matteo > >>> > >>> On Sun, Jun 1, 2025 at 7:50 PM Matteo Golin <matteo.go...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >>>> > >>>> Here's some new footage from yesterday's test, hoping to do one with > real fire soon! > >>>> > >>>> > https://www.linkedin.com/posts/matteo-golin-94118021b_im-very-proud-to-have-been-part-of-cu-inspaces-activity-7335063937069023232-eOEz?utm_source=social_share_send&utm_medium=android_app&rcm=ACoAADdgSUEBv1IgpgwHkj0zmx1DOoRYVtOYOQ0&utm_campaign=copy_link > >>>> > >>>> Was really impressed using NuttX with this! I especially like the > panic notifier call chain, which we're using right now to vent the system > pressure in the event of a crash. > >>>> > >>>> Matteo > >>>> > >>>> On Mon, May 26, 2025, 7:09 PM Matteo Golin <matteo.go...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>> Thanks Tomek! Actually, that would be really awesome to show off. In > the next couple of weeks we'll be doing a cold flow test (here's one we did > previously) and a static fire test, so hopefully we'll have some good > footage and photos of that with real rocket engine flames which we would be > able to share. Once some more of our reports are polished up too we can > include some links to those. > >>>>> > >>>>> Ludovic, I completely agree! The examples in NuttX are already very > nice for testing and demonstrating the range of features NuttX has, but I > would love to see more of the library of possibilities included in the > NuttX project (i.e. sensor fusion implementations, multi-board > communication over LoRa or the network, etc). A lot of PX4's sensor fusion > and event system would be nice to see contributed back. Since InSpace's > applications are very change-heavy and made by students, we've opted to > keep our applications separate but in such a way that they can just be > cloned in the `apps` directory of NuttX and compiled like the other > examples. I've done the same for my Pygmy flight computer as well. > >>>>> > >>>>> Best, > >>>>> Matteo > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> On Mon, May 26, 2025 at 11:09 AM Tomek CEDRO <to...@cedro.info> > wrote: > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Congratulations Matteo and The Team!! :-) > >>>>>> > >>>>>> If you like we can also share the project on: > >>>>>> YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@nuttxchannel. > >>>>>> Hackster: https://www.hackster.io/nuttx. > >>>>>> LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nuttx , > >>>>>> https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12002792. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Maybe a new section on our website would be nice.. but definitely a > >>>>>> project to share on the NuttX International Workshop! :-) > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Tomek > >>>>>> > >>>>>> On Mon, May 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM Matteo Golin < > matteo.go...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>>>>> > > >>>>>> > Hello everyone, > >>>>>> > > >>>>>> > Just wanted to share a fun success story with NuttX here! > >>>>>> > > >>>>>> > Today, CU InSpace used NuttX on some custom designed electronics > for a network controlled pressure system, used for controlling the filling > and ignition of our own hybrid rocket motor! Today was an initial leak test > of our hardware and NuttX's network support made it really easy to create a > working network control system. Here's a photo of the leak test. > >>>>>> > > >>>>>> > We made a network connected switch board as well as a control > system with a large pressure sensor array, and have also been using UDP > multicast telemetry so all of our operators can monitor the system from > their own device. We wanted to show that NuttX can be used for systems like > this and we're happy with how smoothly it's gone so far! > >>>>>> > > >>>>>> > Thank you to the contributors for all their hard work making > NuttX the excellent (and free) tool it is today! > >>>>>> > > >>>>>> > Best, > >>>>>> > Matteo > >>>>>> > > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>> -- > >>>>>> CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info > > > > -- > CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info >
