Hi All,
Apologies for no news on this project for such a large amount of time. I had another project come up on the team, and was focused on that for a while, however I have some big updates now!
First of all a bit of a spin off from this project: Since framework supported the project with a full laptop we ended up with a spare i5 mainboard. This has been put to excellent use and now runs our data acquisition systems, removing the need to have a full laptop beside the rocket!
As for the actual laptop things have changed a bit since my last update. Since we didn’t have a ton of people spending time on the project, some of the tech I want to incorporate has been put on hold for now, in favor of completing a highly modular and upgradable MVP.
The custom aluminum frame was going to be somewhat expensive and time consuming to build, luckily, Pelican was nice enough to sponsor us with an iM3100 case, which the laptop will be built into. we have designed an aluminum lattice frame which all of the internals will mount to, using 3D printed mounts that can be quickly designed and printed.
We also have most of the key electronics we need, with the rest arriving tomorrow. as such I was able to power the system up for the first time with all 3 displays running!
