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Final Product: A full Carbon Rocket

The Full Carbon Rocket

This post aims at showing the final configuration of the rocket giving insight in the details of many subsystems previously not explained.

Lower section

Arm switch, on off switch, break-wire and LED
The electronics part was contained in the upper section. However it had to be linked to the parachute bay in order to trigger the pyro charge. Another important detail was the placement of the switches so that they could be turned on and off from the outside of the rocket. A bulkhead was placed on top of the parachute bay; this had a hole to allow the connection with the pyro charge and it had a bolt on which the stage structure could be screwed on. In addition a metal ring was glued on top of the bulkhead to allow for the switches to be placed on; in this manner a small chamber between the middle and the upper section was created to host the cabling and the switches.
Stage Structure, Electronics and wiring
 One of the most challenging parts of the manufacturing phase was the soldering and cabling of the electronics. Some mistakes were done during the production: the individual bulkheads hosting the boards and the pressure sensor had to be put together after the soldering; an insulating layer on each bulkhead had to be applied to avoid short cuts; more space had to be dedicated to the wiring and longer wires could have been implemented.
Even though we were not experienced in this field at the end the electronics systems did not present any issue.
DARE board, Arduino Nano and Pressure Sensot

Upper Part

Rocket almost completed



The WBPP product on the launch tower

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