Each instrument in the payload pack has a job to do. Each student will need to code a program to receive information from those instruments and record and / or transmit that information.

Although this may sound hard to do, the students already know how to code with icons in a flowchart situation. The above image is a first step using one type of icon programmer. Another will also be used for the final code.

Development boards with microchips will be used to develop the actual instrument controllers as below.