Water Rocket Parachute Deployment Without Electronics
The top of the rocket is made from a second 1 liter bottle.
Water rocket parachute deployment without electronics. Any system from a simple air flap mechanism to the sophisticated servochron electronic deploy system relies on a well made parachute. Water rocket tutorial index. Newer design video here. The base of the bottle is cut as short as possible to keep weight.
If you want to build an advanced water rocket and you don t want to start all over again after the first flight we suggest building a recovery system for your rocket which brings the rocket safely back to earth. This tutorial shows you how to build a side deploy mechanism for a water rocket. Water rocket parachute deployment mechanism. A strong and reliable parachute design is very important to anyone wishing to develop a water rocket with a recovery system.
A parachute deployment mechanism the most common recovery. This week we show we make the newly developed parachute deployment system for model rockets. The servochron is a low cost time delayed dual servo controller designed for use as a parachute deployment or staging mechanism for water rockets. Build your own advanced water rocket which is able to fly more than 600 feet high.
There are different ways to eject parachutes from water rockets. The web companion to this video is here. There are other potential applications for the servochron as well. Let s begin with the basics.
The ezd is an easy to build rocket that can be built from materials you might find at any school. For full step by step details visit us at. The core of the servochron is the texas instruments msp430 launchpad.