UQ METR2800 Team Project - 2008

A satellite that shoots lasers. Our second year mechatronic engineering projects.
The satellite needed to detect an infrared light source (above the targets) and fire a laser at the bullseye. We designed built the entire thing from scratch, starting with only the can.

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This was really cool to watch. Mechatronics in our college is well known to be notoriously hard so many avoid it like the plague, but this 13 year old video might have just convinced me to try and see the possibility of doing it for my capstone.

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@Techrave1 Nope, but if you get a chance to do one of these projects you will learn! You mostly learn theoretical stuff in classes, but these major projects will give you the chance to learn all the practical stuff like wiring etc. which is easy once you know the theory. PS.. I highly recommend mechatronics :D