Elvis Andrés Ayala, an electronics engineer who is passionate about developing accessible technology for space exploration, wrote to us to share the progress of his project Trinidad, which has been made possible thanks to Raspberry Pi hardware.
Extreme conditions
Last year, Elvis had the opportunity to participate in a NASA scientific mission, EMIDSS (Experimental Module for the Iterative Design of Satellite Subsystems), during which he launched the first version of the Trinidad system: an image acquisition module based on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W and a Raspberry Pi Camera Module 3, housed in a 3D-printed enclosure. This device was able to reach an average altitude of 42km in the stratosphere, where it successfully captured images (example below) under extreme conditions, including temperatures below -50°C.
Sensory upgrade
This year, Elvis had…
