As the final year of highschool comes to a close, and spring break begins, I've finally found the time to begin working on my personal projects again. The rocket has been fully painted, and now I am waiting for summer and the completion of my FELT module.

Progress on the module has been swift these past couple of days, firstly I finally sat down and worked through multiple iterations for a nice CAD design of the case that will enclose the module during flight, some screenshots of the CAD and prototypes are seen below:

Prototype in CAD Real Prototype Top Real Prototype Back

I have gone through many iterations (mainly caused by the difficulties of designing snap-joints, no really, they're difficult to deal with) but I am happy with the current iterations: though some tolerances need to be refined. The design has vent holes for the DPS310 sensor, rails for the PCB, and two through-holes on the back for holding the kevlar rope to the nose cone (at least thats the idea). I will continue improving upon this design but as of right now there are little adjustments that are to be made to the design.

The design of the PCB module has been pretty simple, this will simplify the electronics systems greatly and remove the need for wiring. Referencing the first image, the blue area is the ground plane and the red traces represent the current wiring (on the perfboard). I am planning on sending out the PCB to a manufacturer some time next week after some more refinements and feedback from more experienced peers.

That's it for the first-half of this week. I am planning on having one more update post with the rocket and revised CAD designs for the case.