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CubeSat programme

studentman01

Hello world

I'm a new in this platorm and I need help with a special school project.

I'm doing a CubeSat and I want to do it with a rasperry pi 3. I don't have any idea about how to programme these board for my pruposes, but I think in some options:

1- To do a Python OS (but I don't have any idea if that it's posible and how I can apply that to my rasperry pi if it's posible)

2- To do a C++ OS (but I have the same problem that the prevoius option)

It's necessary to say that I want to use Rasperry pi and arduino sensors and other stuff to make my satellite work

 

What am I supposed to do? Is there any other option?

 

Thank you very much!

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  • Hi Ale,

     

    You appear to be concentrating on the Single Board Computer's (SBC) Operating System (OS) - however, the Raspberry Pi (RPi) is often configured with the Raspbian OS (a tailored Debian fork of Linux). You'd use the Raspbian OS to program up executable code in whatever language you prefer using various editors and the GCC or Python compiler - popular languages currently would be Python, C or C++. You could write your code in other languages but would need the appropriate compiler program(s) installed. However the RPi would still be running the Raspbian OS....and your code would be run under the management of that OS.

     

    I think it might help if you tell us what functionality you want from your CubeSat - what sensors are you thinking of including, what are you measuring and how are you communicating to the CubeSat (control or data flow)?

     

    From their, you can purchase those sensors, and start to learn to manipulate them using Python. There are many great online tutorials for Python (and C, C++) and often libraries for all the existing/common sensor modules.

     

    PS: I had to look up what a CubeSat was - looks awesome. Do you pay someone to launch that for you?

     

    regards,

     

    Rod

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  • Hi Ale,

     

    You appear to be concentrating on the Single Board Computer's (SBC) Operating System (OS) - however, the Raspberry Pi (RPi) is often configured with the Raspbian OS (a tailored Debian fork of Linux). You'd use the Raspbian OS to program up executable code in whatever language you prefer using various editors and the GCC or Python compiler - popular languages currently would be Python, C or C++. You could write your code in other languages but would need the appropriate compiler program(s) installed. However the RPi would still be running the Raspbian OS....and your code would be run under the management of that OS.

     

    I think it might help if you tell us what functionality you want from your CubeSat - what sensors are you thinking of including, what are you measuring and how are you communicating to the CubeSat (control or data flow)?

     

    From their, you can purchase those sensors, and start to learn to manipulate them using Python. There are many great online tutorials for Python (and C, C++) and often libraries for all the existing/common sensor modules.

     

    PS: I had to look up what a CubeSat was - looks awesome. Do you pay someone to launch that for you?

     

    regards,

     

    Rod

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