Mars Rover Design Team
I designed, manufactured, and wrote all the software for the main control printed circuit board for the Missouri University of Science & Technology's Mars Rover Design Team.
The rover was called “Phoenix”. It was never designed to go to Mars, but was an exercise in how to build ultra low budget robotic systems. The parts value of the rover could not exceed $15,000, which is exceptionally low for traditional rovers.
The rover carried a mass spectrometer. Ignore the duct tape :)
This is the main control printed circuit board I designed and wrote all the software for. It contained a GPS chipset, an ARM processor, and a bunch of jump wires :). It handled all communication, manual control, and autonomous position determination and driving.
It would drill into the soil and deposit that into the spectrometer.
Here’s me remotely operating the rover.
A little late night hotel debugging. Everyone else went to the pool, I wrote some code.
The rover on “Mars” (Utah).