Engineering, physics, and computing projects with reflections and next steps.
High-altitude balloon project
Status: Ongoing Problem Explore how a small payload could collect useful data at high altitude and be reliably recoverable. I’ve been working on this for several years, driven by the goal of sending a small experiment towards the edge of space. This is a brief summary. Full documentation will live at projects.lukeharrisplatt.com. Approach I researched sensor selection, data logging, power budgeting, and recovery strategies. I built and soldered a basic data logger using a Raspberry Pi Pico and sensors including an accelerometer, gyroscope, barometer, and temperature measurement, then prepared it for launch conditions (power, enclosure, and logging reliability). ...