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2026-10-08

The website is back up and running after we moved our GitHub repo to a new organization. Richard Jinkens, Major Montgomery and Dr. Baek are the organization's owners, and every capstone member has permission to edit the sturdy-canary repo. We are still working only on the 2027 branch.

Anechoic Chamber Test — 16 Sep 2026

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Test Plan Timeline RFDF

Test 1: Anechoic Chamber

Primary objectives:

  1. Verify that the KrakenSDR can pick up a 915 MHz signal in the anechoic chamber.
  2. Show the signal clearly in the spectrum.
  3. Maintain coherence/calibration across the five receiver channels.

Potential objectives:

  1. Compare performance of the Master and Slave Kraken.
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2026-09-14

Fusion code is written and currently ready to output over USB to the Cube — see the new Fusion Code Docs entry for how it works. We're waiting on verification now: Duke is writing a test plan to confirm it talks to the Cube, and potentially get the Cube talking back.

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2026-08-28

Trason and Trey finished the first iteration of the RVTM. Trason also worked on the components of the drone and the drone diagram. Lachlan finished the OV-1 and worked on Cube controller and program research. Sean put together the overall system diagram and layout. Trey and Duke built and validated the target transmitter, Duke is developing the KrakenSDR to output a MAVLink packet to the Cube controller, and the team helped identify the uses and function of existing equipment.

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2026-08-13

Cleaned up the Capstone room, labeling different parts and shelves for better organization. Created code to run on the HackRF device. The code lives inside the clear Pi labeled Hackerman. This component and how to use it has been updated on the GitHub and everything you need is there. We also got the Kraken working and verified this once we had made the code and started transmitting our signal.