CEP008 – Building Rockets with Joe Barnard (Interview)
Joe Barnard joins Chris to talk about building scale model rockets and using thrust vector control to try and land those rockets like SpaceX does. This is an ongoing rocketry and video experiment you can follow and watch on BPS.Space!
The Contextual Electronics Podcast
November 4, 20201h 13m
Show Notes
- Joe Barnard is a rocketeer who runs BPS.space
- Joe is helping to bring Thrust Vector Control to the field of model rocketry
- He got started wanting to work for SpaceX, but has expanded the scope of things he’s interested in doing long term
- The signal board is available for sale
- Check out the evolution of control electronics that have gone on his rockets
- The AVA Flight computer, recently released
- Watch the “Launches” Playlist on the BPS.space YouTube channel (various were watched during the recording)
- Watch the “Landings” playlist on the BPS.space YouTube channel (various were watched during the recording)…these were using the Thrust Vector Control
- PID Control loops
- Joe uses Simulink to test out different control characteristics
- Kalman filters
- Reaction wheel
- Support Joe and BPS.space on Patreon!
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