Senior Design Project: CubeSat Radio Board

For our two quarter senior design project at UCR, my team made a CubeSat flight computer and radio. I owned the radio board, which consisted of a COTS UHF transceiver for TT&C and a self-developed S-Band transceiver for image downlink, as well as 2x MSP430s to control each radio independently. Below are some of the videos I recorded to document development progress. All hardware designs and code can be found on the linked github repo.

Knowing what I know now, there is a lot about the design that I would have changed. But the experience of designing, hand-soldering, and bringing up a complete system taught me a lot of skills that have been invaluable in my career.