Krill Labs - Sentinel Rocket Launcher

About:

This was deffinetely one of the more fun project I've done. I got to play with electronics, decent sized motors, and most importantly, I got to blow stuff up!

More seriously, this project probably emcompassed more areas of engineering than any other project I did at the time. There was electrical design, mechanical assembly, radio transmission, and even a little aero dynamics. The unit can be controlled either autonomously or by remote. It has a wireless camera build in just between the launch lugs so that it can give real time feed back of what its looking at to either a computer or a human controller.

In The Field:
Powered up with live rockets.

The Unit:

Additional Photos:

Here is a picture of the unit from the front with the rockets attached.

This picture shows the aftermath of a rocket that skidded accross the back yard on its way to the target.

Two of the many rockets used on this launcer. Since so many launches took place, I didnt want to spend
the money for lots of rockets, so I made lots of these cheap disposable ones.

Here is an inner look at the controller.

Videos:

	Multiple launches.
	A night launch and something catching on fire.

Viewer Comments

Name:	waalkes
Time:	06:54 PM
Date:	March 26, 2011
Comment:	Dan, looks like you are using a *nix based filesystem. For your "Multiple launches" link to work, you need to change the .mov to .MOV at the end of the link.

Name:	dankrill
Time:	07:06 PM
Date:	March 26, 2011
Comment:	good call ! the webserver is case sensitive, I just fixed the link.

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