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Introduction to ROS Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWRmjBqlURE&t=773sAt the start of semester we ran a number of seminars on different skills that we use at BLUEsat. In the first of these videos, former Rover Software Team...

Coming up with a space mission idea

Welcome back to my series on How to make a space mission! Last time we talked about how doing space activities has never been easier. CubeSats are making spacecraft cheaper and...

Electrical Engineering in Just Two Hours

One of the most surprising things about our experience at the European Rover Challenge last year was how incredibly close to total failure we came. Two days before the...

Reaction Wheel System v1: Software for Pointing

Bonus points if you use a bang-bang controller

In a previous post we covered the software to perform detumbling - the first function of an Attitude Determination + Control System (ADCS). We now move onto the second...

How to make a space mission: Part 1 – An Introduction

BLUEsast groundstation team members work with handheld radios

Did you want to be an astronaut growing up? Were your lofty ambitions brought down as you got older?I’m here today to tell you to aim high once again...

Budgeting Process

BUCKLE UP EVERYONE WE'RE GOING TO GO ON A WILD AND EXHILARATING JOURNEY INVOLVING SPREADSHEETS AND LOTS OF MEETINGSBLUEsat does a lot of cool stuff. Robots, satellites and radios...

Frequency Capture using GNU Radio

The Waterfall Plot Want to get your hands metaphorically dirty with some BLUEsat projects but don't have enough cash to fund both your HECS debt and your rover? This is...

Streaming Video to a GUI with ROS and QML Part 2

OwrROSCOmponents class creation dialouge

In our last article, as part of our investigation into different Graphical User Interface (GUI) options for the next European Rover Challenge (ERC) we looked at a proof of...

Streaming Video to a GUI with ROS and QML Part 1

The BLUEsat Off World Robotics Software team is rebuilding our user interface, in an effort to address maintenance and learning curve problems we have with our existing glut/opengl based gui....

Reaction Wheel System v1 – Software for Detumbling

Okay so in a previous post we covered the basic theory and hardware behind building a reaction wheel - a cool module used in satellites to control their orientation...

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