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On Board Satellite Controller using ARM Based Microcontroller

On-Board Satellite Controller using ARM Based Microcontroller

Satellite Subsystems Irrespective of the intended application, is it a communications satellite or a weather satellite or even an Earth observation satellite, different subsystems comprising a typical satellite include the following: Mechanical structure Propulsion Thermal control Power supply Tracking, telemetry and command Attitude and orbit control Payload Antennas The structural subsystem provides the framework for […]

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chipKIT Max32 is the same form factor as the Arduino Mega board

What is Chipkit Development Board?

In order to understand the chipKIT platform, it is important to talk about Arduino first. Arduino is an easy-to-use and powerful open source environment for developing microcontroller based applications.Chipkit Development Board It has gained huge amount of popularity in past few years, specially among hobbyists. Arduino has been a wonderful tool, introducing many people to

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Sensor unplugged

chipKIT Project 3: Easy Pulse Meter

This is a third project in our chipKIT tutorial series and today we are going to construct a simple pulse rate meter using our Easy Pulse sensor with Digilent’s chipKIT Uno32 board. Digilent’s chipKIT Basic I/O shield is also used in this project for displaying the pulse waveform and the pulse rate. What do we need? In order

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