Redstone

During my one and a half year period as Avionics and Tracking lead for UC Aerospace I spent the majority of my time on team building. Since I was starting from starch with no team members and little of my own skill It become apparent early on that some sort of tutorial would be needed. Luckily I was not the only one who noticed this, one of my many mentors, Kieran, offered to teach the tutorial. All I had to do was design a board under his mentorship and then arrange all of the management aspects of the tutorial so that he could do the teaching. From there Redstone was born, keeping to the colour stone name and that Redstone from Minecraft was my first exposure to logic circuits, as I hoped that this PCB would be people first exposure to PCB design would be. Designed to be hand assembled with the exception of the sensor that was a QFN package. Centred around a Raspberry Pi Pico, Redstone was capable of being programmed in Arduino (C++), C and MicroPython. By presenting a easy entrance for anyone with any level of experience with some of the most common programming languages, Redstone the board was a great success, except for one minor mistake which resulted in the pico being incorrectly powered. However, after a small amount of rework was performed the board functioned as expected.