SmartFish is a fish shaped airplane. The project is about building a complete navigation system and ground station for it. The first big experiment will be an autonomous flight from a balloon at 15km of altitude. The experiment is part of the RexusBexus campaign for 2009. Here there is more information about the project and the team.
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Next phase in producing the moulds and few words about VKI
Posted on February 7th, 2010 1 commentNext phase of manufacturing the moulds for Spacefish is done!
In this moment in Warsaw we have ready both – top and bottom – parts of positive form, and now we are ready to start manufacturing final moulds.
Milling
Top part is ready!
And now we can start manufacturing final moulds...
As you remember we have a new sponsor – Von Karman Institute. Probably from the beginnig of the March I will start my internship in VKI, application form is mostly filled and almost ready to send.
My job to do will be to determine coefficients – drag, lift, moments, depending on different positions of the rudders. In general we want to do analysis using CFD methods. -
New PCBs for ships!
Posted on February 3rd, 2010 No commentsJust a quick note, today is a busy day here (ties parade as we call it) but we should post this anyway. We just received the new PCBs for our experiments with small ships. If you take a closer look you’ll see the project’s logo. Apologies for the iPhone camera, but that’s the best we have right now.
The main components have been laid out (that is, not soldered yet) to give an idea of how they’ll look like.
Cheers.
