Creating a Custom Flight Computer for Active Rocket Control | Hardware Overview

Welcome to the first video in this two-part overview series about Flight Computer ONE! In this video, I go over the three versions of the computer made to date and explain in detail my reasoning behind each design along with the results and problems encountered. I also touch base on a future design at the end! The next video will be all about firmware development and should be completed much quicker, however, I will not be able to go into as much detail.

This is not a guide, but here are the resources I learned the most from!

PCB design & theory resources:
@PhilsLab
@RobertFeranec
@AltiumAcademy

General electronics knowledge resources:
@greatscottlab
@ElectroBOOM

"HUH" Cat(2:35):
@gamingsoundeffects2025

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Timestamps:
Intro/Project Summary: 0:00
Flight Computer ONE v1.0: 0:39
v1.0 Design: 0:55
v1.0 Results: 2:47
Flight Computer ONE v2.0: 3:17
v2.0 Design: 3:37
v2.0 Results: 6:57
Flight Computer ONE v2.5: 8:07
v2.5 Design: 8:21
v2.5 Results: 9:32
Flight Computer ONE v3.0: 10:59
Outro: 11:17

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