Make To Innovate (AERO 494) Power Monitoring Board Back
Spring 2023, I took Aero 494 or Make to Innovate. This is an aerospace project based class where I joined a team of other engineers from a variety of majors to continue work on a project. I joined the team FlyHy, a newly formed team with the goal of powering a model air craft with a hydrogen fuel cell. I was the only person on the team with any electronics experience which I had from solar car so I was assigned the role of doing PCB design. Throughout the semester I learned KiCad for PCB design and created a power monitoring system that could monitor the output power of the system and log it for future analysis. I wrote code for the project in C++ for the Arduino Nano that runs the code. After I got the board ordered, I created a first draft of a power regulating system that would be more compatible for power the electrical system of the model aircraft. This ended up being an interesting and challenging project. This was the first team I was a part of where I was the sole knowledgeable member in electrical design. This became a challenge as I was trying to get important information for my design such as current draw or specifics for ordering parts. The board had a few errors on it but I was able to fix them and get it working as intended.
Look at the design Documentation