Satellite has transformed the manner the world is being looked at, and the manner people send information about it. Similar to enormous mirrors in space, they may be employed to bounce internet data, telephone calls, and television pictures from one point of the globe to another at light speed. They are utilized for communication in addition to sensing information. From facilitating military drills during combats to facilitating planes and ships orbit the planet, and from predicting the weather to locating mineral deposits. A homemade satellite can build by persons for research or spy purposes. The following instructions demonstrate how you can build your personal homemade satellite (Cain 28).
The Satellite characterizes the following:
Thruster to imitate a burn to locate itself within the right orbit.
A wireless camera that could transmit audio/ video up to 300ft
Speaker for wake up and sleep processes to conserve power
Sun is tracking rockery range solar panels to recharge its batteries.
Step 1: Finding an enclosure
(as cited in Saeedi 2012, p 109)
The initial this you ought to do is to look for an appropriate enclosure. For instance, you can look for a lamp that appears as the one depicted above. Once the flexible neck is eliminated, a hole is made to attach a thruster. The opening/hole for the power cable is suited for a programming port. Also, the hole for ON/OFF switch is adapted for the fitting wireless camera (Reeves 102).
Step 2: Gut time and primary components arrangement
(as cited in Cain 2014, p 36)
Once you acquire your enclosure, gut it by unscrewing everything. Try to keep any part you could reuse in your project and recover the remaining ones. After gutting, you should begin pre-fitting your primary components. This can help you avoid some difficulties later (Saeedi 83).
Step 3: Building the thruster
(Reeves 2014, p 129)
The better item to use for a thruster is a hair trimmer. Gut the thruster part. Glue it to a piece of indent threaded rod. Slightly sand and paint it. Cut some perf board to suit in. Then, soldier varied color LED to the board allowing the adequate wire to attach some form of connector or radio shack. Glue board to thruster and proceed with bolting to the base of the lamp (Visse and. Moore p 12).
Step 4: Adding Audio
(as cited in Saeedi 2012, p 110)
For audio, a small piezo element is used. Just glue to the enclosure and add the connector (Visse et al. 24).
Step 5: Building the chassis
(as indicated in Reeves 2014, p 210)
A chassis is will be required to the solar panels and the circuitry. By layering perfboard, you are able to make a perfect chassis simply, cheap, and simple to fix parts to it. Doing that enables you to service your homemade satellite fixing connectors to it for effortless parts removal (Reeves 176).
Step 6: Building the Solar Panels
(as cited in Visse et al. 2013, p 28)
Homemade satellite requires four Rechargeable 2000 NiMH batteries to be able to maintain batteries for some time since they are needed to be charged. To do so, you may use light garden kind of solar panels. Remove the panels away from light and create a mold to provide them a clear appearance and conceal where the wires pass via the hollow tube (Cain 68).
Step 7: Building the Solar Panel Chassis
(as indicated in Reeves 2014, p 212)
The solar panel ought to move so that it can track the sun. With 4 “L” brace, micro servo, and specific recouped gears, you can make a perfect tracking unit. The “L” braces are built by purchasing ¾ broad plain uranium rods, slashing them down to size and twisting them appropriately using a set of pliers or a vise (Saeedi 122). Drill holes on every leg for solar panels tube and bolts. Cut the width on one set of braces for the attachment of servo. Similarly, the larger “L” should have a split dremeled out to permit the passageway of the wires during the assembly process. Look out at the picture for clarification. Obtain some small gear from tape player or the old toy. Drill out the epicenter to simulate your solar panel tube dimension and glue on through a dab of warm glue for easier elimination if necessary. Take a simulating and insert to the servo. You may slit the servo horn and mount to that for easy elimination of the gear from the servo. Afterward, place it all together centered on the pictures (Visse et al. 36).
Step 8: Camera attachment
(as indicated in Reeves 2014, p 214)
The camera part is the easiest. You can buy a wireless camera for approximately $30 on E-Bay. Simply unbolt the lens and attach lens via the hole. Screw back hooked on the camera and added a warm glue ready, and inserts a 9V battery in the process. Vs 2.0 will switch via remote control or through a timing schedule or.
Step 9: Adding the Programming Port
(Visse et al. 2013, p 49)
Step 10: Building the circuit board
(as cited in Cain 2014, p 87)
This is built with many junks, and spare parts (such as IC, transistors, transformer and capacitors) acquired from the old device. Reference the picture to observe how to place each component. Check the schematic and code above. You can use a Picaxe 14M (Visse et al. 52).
Step 11: What is going on in there?
Following power input to the program, check the voltage input derived from the solar panels. It falls asleep if the voltage is low and wakes up if the voltage is high and its LED thruster is powered. The panels begin scanning 5-points within the sky and record the voltage at every interval. Upon completion, to compares the values and identifies the greatest voltage source site. It then turns its panel to that spot and fall asleep for a considerable amount of time to preserve power. Once it wakes up, it checks the preliminary voltage and begins the procedure again. In case the voltage is too low, it will play its boot down the music and across an extended a stand by time (Reeves 245).
Step 12: Final Assembly
(as cited in Cain 2014, p 87)
The remaining step is to put it all together. Set the chassis directly into the body and utilize the two holes you drilled for the 2-solar panel tubes and stabilized everything. Move the perfboards up and down using the threaded road for a proper fit. After that is completed, charge your batteries and then upload the program (Saeedi 314). Now you have your Homemade Satellite.
Work Cited
Cain, Joseph C. Symposium on Low-Level Satellite Surveys, Second General Scientific Assembly. Place of Publication Not Identified: International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, 2014. Print.
Reeves, Lawrence A. "The Canadian Satellite Design Challenge: Building Future Engineering Capability in Canadian Universities." IEEE Commun. Mag. IEEE Communications Magazine 53.5 (2015): 196-98. Web. 17 Mar. 2016.
Saeedi, Parvaneh. "Automatic Building Detection in Aerial and Satellite Images." 2008 10th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (2012). Web. 17 Mar. 2016.
Visser, P., and P. Moore. Integrated Space Geodetic Systems and Satellite Dynamics. Kidlington, Oxford: Published for the Commission on Space Study Pergamon, 2013. Print.
