Zachary Madin

Zachary Madin

he/him

Robotics PhD Student investigating collective dynamics with Bayesian inference in graph networks. I also work on embedded software, open source hardware projects and science communication.

Open to opportunities in robotics, autonomy, and electronics.

UoB SAT SOM Camera Adapter

UoB SAT SOM Camera Adapter

A KiCAD hardware design for a PCB adapter board developed for the University of Bristol Satellite (UoB SAT) project.

Description

This board is an edge card adapter that bridges the MIPI-CSI camera interfaces on a Variscite DART-MX8M System-on-Module (SOM) carrier board to FPC (Flexible Printed Circuit) cables, enabling connection to Xenics LWIR MicroCube 640 thermal infrared cameras.

The DART-MX8M carrier board exposes its MIPI-CSI camera interfaces through a high-density edge card connector (HSEC8), while the thermal cameras use a different FPC connector format (Hirose DF40HC). This adapter board provides:

  • Physical interface translation between the HSEC8 edge card and DF40HC FPC connectors
  • Voltage level shifting via a TXS0104EPWR bidirectional level translator, converting I2C control signals between the 3.3 V and 1.8 V domains used by the carrier board and camera respectively

Designed in KiCAD 8.0.