Our Project
Collide-3 AVM is primarly an image aquisition sytem, as well as a means of interfacing all external experimental peripherals. The planetary research lab will use Collide-3 AVM to run an experiment on a suborbital rocket, recording data as soon as micro gravity is obtained
Collide-3 AVM consists of 5 main components:
- Via P20 windows embedded board
- ATMega 328 Micro-Processor
- SVSI Streamview High Speed Camera
- OCZ SSD
- Hitachi H48C accelerometer
the ATMega 328 controls all power management and samples the Hitachi H48C accelerometer to detect microgravity, when microgravity is detected, power is sent to the experiment chamber powering on an array of LED's, opening a door exposing the particle chamber, and muscle wire which releases a marble. Also powered on is the SVSI high speed camera
the Via P20 will detect when the stream view camera is powered on and immediatly begin to store images as they come from the ethernet buffer, after a predetermined amount of time this process will stop and the experiment is powered off.
This is the external components we will interface
