Florida Rocket Lab ERP (2023)

Chase MacDonnell

Nov 15, 2024 — 2 min read

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 difficulty in communicating on orders, test plans, and inventory. Thus, I decided it would be beneficial to develop a custom enterprise resource planning (ERP) software to help us better organize and keep track of everything.

This software is a React Single Page Application (SPA) with a Golang backend and SQLite database. The application was intentionally designed to be very small and run on the cheapest possible cloud software, helping us to keep costs down.

Photo of an order while in the draft stage.

Photo of the purchase orders of the order.

Photo of the shipments and details of a purchase order.

Trailer Test Stand (2024)

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

Igniter Controls and DAQ Rev 2 (2024)

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

EtherCAT over 100Base-T1 (2023)

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Nevermore FMS (2020-Present)

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

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Trailer Test Stand (2024)

Igniter Controls and DAQ Rev 2 (2024)

EtherCAT over 100Base-T1 (2023)

Nevermore FMS (2020-Present)