I'm Matteo, and I'm a MSc student in Electrical and Computer engineering (with an aeronautics focus) at the University of Waterloo in Canada. I hold a B.Eng in Computer systems from Carleton University, and I am an Apache NuttX committer.
I was a part of Carleton's rocketry design team, CUInSpace, where I led a team of engineering students in the development of a real-time telemetry system using the Apache NuttX RTOS. I also helped design InSpace's hybrid control system for remotely controlling the fill and ignition operations of the team's first hybrid rocket (nitrous and paraffin wax propulsion system). Alongside the ground systems, I designed the critical flight system for keeping our ox tank vent valve shut during flight. Both systems performed successfully at the team's first hybrid launch at Launch Canada 2025!
Now I build my own rockets and flight computer systems, my latest on being my L1 rocket "Albie" and its flight computer, Pygmy!
If you haven't heard of NuttX, check it out!
- Rocket flight computers
- Raspberry Pi 4B support for the Apache NuttX RTOS
- Improving the user experience of Apache NuttX
- Planning out a drone build
- Control systems
- CAD & 3D printing
- Italian
