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Ep. 06: From Breadboard to Field Test - Debugging, Enclosures & First Data
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This week on Build, Create & Learn – A Maker’s Journey, I took a big step forward: moving my drone telemetry logger off the breadboard and into a real enclosure.
It wasn’t smooth sailing. Desoldering headers damaged some pads, wiring bugs kept piling up, and I spent hours chasing errors from the SD card, BME280, and GPS module. But after rerouting pins and rewriting code, I finally got the system logging properly again.
The real payoff? A short car test drive that produced my first dataset — GPS coordinates, speed, and altitude — all saved to the SD card. I visualized the track in JupyterLabs with Folium and GPX Studio, and it was incredibly satisfying to see the results line up with reality.
What you’ll hear in this episode:
This episode is about more than just wiring and code — it’s about perseverance, learning from mistakes, and celebrating the moment when raw numbers turn into meaningful data.
🎧 Listen now and let’s keep building, creating, and learning — together!
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It wasn’t smooth sailing. Desoldering headers damaged some pads, wiring bugs kept piling up, and I spent hours chasing errors from the SD card, BME280, and GPS module. But after rerouting pins and rewriting code, I finally got the system logging properly again.
The real payoff? A short car test drive that produced my first dataset — GPS coordinates, speed, and altitude — all saved to the SD card. I visualized the track in JupyterLabs with Folium and GPX Studio, and it was incredibly satisfying to see the results line up with reality.
What you’ll hear in this episode:
- Why moving from breadboard to wires is never as easy as it looks
- The lessons I learned from desoldering headers and torn pads
- Debugging SD card, BME280, and GPS issues one by one
- Designing and 3D printing my first enclosure box
- Logging real data on a short test drive (instead of a flight)
- Visualizing GPS tracks and speed data in Jupyter
- Next steps: battery indicators, antennas, and the first drone flight
This episode is about more than just wiring and code — it’s about perseverance, learning from mistakes, and celebrating the moment when raw numbers turn into meaningful data.
🎧 Listen now and let’s keep building, creating, and learning — together!
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