From PCB to Space: Assembly, Testing, and Coding for Low Earth Orbit

Описание: Making the module real, and the troubles that ensue! PCBA's the easy part, getting to shipment though...uuf!
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Continuing with the pocketqube satellite experiment module design we did in    • Can You Design a Space Circuit in Weeks? W...   now it's time to do PCBA, bring-up the circuit, test, program, and debug debug debug as the deadline to launch looms.

There are a few surprises in store in the process that need to be overcome if we hope to get micropython and a custom ASIC running in low Earth orbit.

** Hunity **
Some details about Hunity, the BME satellite on which we're getting a ride, from Alba Orbital (the launch broker arranging to get us all to LEO):
https://www.albaorbital.com/bme-hunity

If you want a deeper dive into the platform, Matt and I got to chat with Tibor from BME who's giving us the ride to space and it covers a lot of the specifics of the satellite, pocketqubes in general, the other experiments on board and more:    • Testing your ASIC in Space! An interview w...  


** YOUR own code, running in SPACE **
The guide and sample Python code for creating experiments to run on the modules is all at:
https://github.com/psychogenic/spasic...



** Experiment Module **
The spASICs repository is at
https://github.com/psychogenic/spasics
and that's where you can find the hardware design files, the requirements document (PRD) and stuff like that, including the fully documented I2C protocol/API

https://github.com/psychogenic/spasic...



** Customized uPython **
My fork of the micropython rp2 port, with the i2c module: https://github.com/psychogenic/microp...