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Innovation Award: Best Maker 2025
The story of showing AstroNav at Maker Days Eindhoven and receiving the Best Maker 2025 title.
By YoupMaker Events 1 min read
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Model rocketry · electronics · telemetry
AstroNav
AstroNav started because I wanted to understand what happens inside a model rocket during flight. It grew into a custom electronics platform that records sensor data, sends live telemetry and helps me test increasingly ambitious ideas one launch at a time.
RP2040 Custom PCB Sensors Telemetry Embedded software 3D printing
Project notebook
What this build is about
Core
Custom flight controller
Link
Wireless telemetry
Workflow
Build · fly · improve
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Updates from this project
Archived update Model Rockets
AstroNav | Flight 3
The archived work-in-progress plan for AstroNav Flight 3, including telemetry, apogee detection and launch-platform changes.
By YoupModel Rockets 2 min read
Archived update Model Rockets
AstroNav | Flight 2
An archived AstroNav test focused on live telemetry, the handheld base station and a revised rocket setup.
By YoupModel Rockets 1 min read
Archived update Model Rockets
AstroNav | Flight 1
The first archived AstroNav flight log: live telemetry, a successful launch and several important hardware lessons.
By YoupModel Rockets 2 min read
Archived update Electronics
AstroNav | Flight Controller
A practical overview of the custom PCB at the centre of AstroNav and the design ideas recorded in the original build page.
By YoupElectronics 2 min read