I am planning a high power rocket project, and I would like to get familiar with how to use the Arduino. I plan on utilizing a barometric pressure sensor and a GPS logger. I have seen Adafruit sensors that would work, and I linked them to this post. I am not familiar with how to make a program that would be able to record barometric data and log GPS data over the flight. If anyone can provide me with some guidance, it would be greatly appreciated.
Do you have a plan to disregard the air pressure caused by the rocket while it is flying?
There will be small holes drilled into the airframe so the pressure in the rocket can equalize with the atmosphere surrounding it.
Adafruit provides their tutorials and programming examples for, essentially, all of their products.
That has been done quite often, and examples are posted on the web and discussed in this forum.
Baby steps first! Learn how to use each sensor individually, before starting to put the pieces together.
Since the rocket has a small diameter, do you all think that the Arduino Nano RP2040 would be the best option?
What diameter is "small"?
There are countless postage-stamp sized Arduino-compatible MCUs, and most of them are up to the task of recording data points on an SD card.
54mm or 2.1"
No worries, then!
There will be a pressure differential due to the speed of the rocket and air passing across its surface
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