BZZ Avionics 

I built the Boomie Zoomie Zombie avionics bay in two months between the second launch and the third launch of the vehicle. It was meant to improve upon the design of the BZB avionics system, which was developed on a even shorter time frame. This bay tried adding strain gauges, an auto countdown trigger to switch to high frequency data, an IMU, and Molex micro fit 3.0 connectors instead of direct solder connections.

All in all this system proved to have a lot of growing pains that led to several errors in the manufacture of the system. Since the system was built in isolation, the problems were not found in testing. There were errors in the construction of the wire harness and design of the strain gauges. During the launch this led the software lead and I to work overnight to fix the problems. Due to a lack of proper documentation on the software side, the wrong software configuration was running during flight. Overall, a very valuable lesson on the importance of test design and procedures was learned. Further ground testing post flight demonstrated proper function of the system after more software debugging.