Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Capstone Design

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adam Kaplan, California State University, Northridge; James Flynn, California State University, Northridge; Sharlene Katz P.E., California State University, Northridge

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

subtle difficulties of certain tasks.Such discussion amounted to a collaborative design of each component of the software, andallowed large tasks to be decomposed into subtasks by the entire team.F. Software Development EnvironmentThe CubeSat processor is a Microchip dsPIC33 microcontroller. This processor is found inMicrochip’s Explorer16 Development Board (five of which were shared between the softwareteam and the other engineers on the CubeSat project) as well as the Pumpkin CubeSat Kit™Development Board (one of which was shared by project members). The Microchip MPLAB XIDE was used in concert with the Microchip XC16 C Compiler. Hardware debugging wasperformed with a Microchip ICD 3 in-circuit debugger. Subversion was used as our source