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K. Adlington

Projects tagged “firmware”

Three of the eleven projects in the catalogue. Show all projects.

Isometric CAD view of the Huia airframe, showing the wing, tail surfaces and ducted fan pod.

2026 · Team member - RF integration; oversaw avionics integration

Huia EDF UAV

A fixed-wing electric ducted fan UAV built by two six-person teams. I oversaw the avionics integration around ArduPilot and ran the RF and antenna placement study in Ansys HFSS, alongside battery thermal-runaway containment, ESC thermal characterisation and the launcher's electrical control system.

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Render of the Bluestone stack-up: five round dark blue boards held parallel by vertical backbone boards down two sides, with a GNSS patch antenna module on the top board.

2023–2024 · Team member 2023; Avionics Team Lead 2024

Bluestone Flight Computer

A flight computer developed over two hardware revisions and two roles. As a team member in 2023 I led the sensor suite design and laid out the Sensor Board; as Avionics Team Lead in 2024 I directed the second revision, addressing the USB interface faults and thermal issues the first prototype exposed. The system provided reliable tracking and telemetry on lower-powered test flights up to 8,000 feet.

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The range warning unit deployed on a sports field at dusk: a black cylindrical enclosure on a tripod with its amber beacon lit.

2025 · Electrical systems lead

LoRa Range Warning System

A tripod-mounted field unit carrying siren and beacon alerts across a high-power rocketry range. I led the electrical design and implementation, covering PCB layout, RF front-end development and firmware integration around a NUCLEO-WL55JC and its STM32WL, with the LoRa stack configured half-duplex for bidirectional exchange between the launch site and range safety stations. The custom PCB runs from inputs up to 8S LiPo, generates regulated 12 V and 5 V rails, and switches the unit's siren and beacon.

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