2023 · Northeastern Electric Racing
Telemetry Communication Board
Live wireless telemetry and GPS tracking for a Formula SAE electric race car.
- Electrical Project Lead
- PCB Design, GNSS/GPS, RF Telemetry, Python, PyQt6, Google Maps API, SD Logging
- vehicle telemetry
- Live
- GNSS positioning class
- 1 m
- redundant data paths (RF + SD)
- 2×
The Telemetry Communication Board streams live vehicle data from Northeastern's Formula SAE electric car to the pit wall, giving the team real-time position, speed, and system-health visibility during testing and competition.
On-vehicle hardware
The board pairs a programmable, ultra-robust meter-level GNSS positioning chip with a wireless telemetry link, streaming position, speed, heading, and time in real time. An integrated microcontroller mirrors every packet to an onboard SD card, so no data is lost if the RF link drops mid-lap.
Ground station software
A custom Python ground station built with PyQt6 ingests the live stream, plots vehicle position and heading on an embedded Google Maps view, and flags faults for remote debugging — turning raw packets into decisions the team can make between laps.