Absolution Weekly Update #5 - Live Tomorrow at 1pm CT (Patreon)

Hey Patrons! Here's the link for the fifth weekly update for Project Absolution! My girlfriend is getting her masters degree today, so I'm all booked up til tomorrow :)

Here's the TLDR on my end: Awesome awesome week for me, got a ton done. We are on track to launch AVA with Sprint NET next Friday.

I got a preliminary design for the throttle valve printed and working. I got sick of waiting for fancy metal gears in the mail so we're pushing ahead with a less flight-worthy design in the meantime. I'll show and explain it a bit on the stream! Once the throttle valve is done, I can design the EVE (engine controller) board and send it off to production.

AVA is still working great, this week I got position and velocity filtering online. It's rough right now, but it'll be fine for Sprint. I also worked on more basic functionality on the board(state shifting, error checking, etc). The last few things to add are the actual commands to write values to the TVC mount and roll control system, and data logging.

Speaking of which - I redesigned the roll control system! I can talk about that a bit as well. Still haven't reached a fly-able iteration of it, but the wheel now rides on a shaft mounted by a top and bottom ball bearing, which should reduce the drag during turns considerably. I also geared up the motor so we can spin the wheel faster.

Anyway knowing me, something will happen in the next week to prevent launch next Friday, but so far, we're all go...

Blue skies,

Joe