Need to flight test an altimeter, was going to put in a know worthy rocket with e match wired into a empty vial. E match fired upon recovery, altimeter is working. What other ways have you used for flight testing?
Sounds like you want to put all your Eggtimers in one basket.I have been thinking about this for a while. I have dozens of flight computers from various manufacturers that are waiting to be used, but most of them are Eggtimer ones I have built. I would love to have a flying test system.
I have a lot of LOC 7.6" parts laying around. If you build out one of their ebays with the maximum amount of space, you can fit a really large sled in there. probably something on the order of 6.5" x 14". That is a lot of real estate. I am thinking of just making a simple rocket that flies well to about 1000' and build the sled with a power bus and some kind of modular mounting so I can mount a whole bunch of computers to the sled at once. I am thinking I would make the rocket itself single deploy using an Eggtime Apogee module and then use Christmas lights on all the test computers. I was planning to point a camera at the sled and then be able to match the video to the flight times to see if the computers work as planned. I could also use it to test air starts on the way up.
It definitely feels like a Rube Goldberg solution compared to a vacuum test on the ground, but mostly it is because I get bored making regular rockets and just feel like building something different
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