As part of my role as Vice President of Avionics, and more recently President, I designed and built a large portion of our Test Stand Trailer. This trailer is designed to support "Sparrow", team's liquid rocket engine designed to produced 500lbf of force. Just like our
See https://chasemacdonnell.net/igniter-controls-and-daq-2022/ for more information on the original igniter system. GitHub: On a private Gitea instance, will work on transferring to my GitHub. Using all of the issues I discovered from my original igniter system, I designed a new custom controller to allow for better diagnostics and
While evaluating different options for networking on the Florida Rocket Lab's Test Stand Trailer, I developed a series of PCBs that converted a standard 100Base-TX Ethernet signal into a 100Base-T1 Automotive Ethernet signal. This was designed to allow for single cable connection to every controller and sensor reader
GitHub: Being kept private for use by the Florida Rocket Lab. Throughout 2023 the Florida Rocket Lab at the University of Florida expanded from being a 30 person team working on a single project, to a 100+ person team with multiple separate projects happening concurrently. With this expansion came immense
GitHub: https://github.com/Nevermore-FMS/nevermore-fms (The main branch is the last functioning edition, a in-progress rewrite can be found on the "rewrite-2024" branch) The Nevermore FMS is an alternative implementation of the Field Management System used in the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC). I had originally started developing
As part of my role as the Director of Avionics at the Florida Rocket Lab, I developed the original controls and data acquisition system for our igniter. This system was divided into three sections: a Arduino based PLC (Controllino) for controls, a IO-Link Master for data acquisition and a computer
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GitHub: https://github.com/McMackety/folder-lti-archive The Virtual Folder App was a LTI (Learning Tool Integration) designed to make it extremely easy to create study "Folders", a multi-page study sheet used to review for the IB (International Baccalaureate) History of Americas IA (Internal Assessment). The idea for it
