Design Progress

2-14-11

February 16, 2011
Today we discussed dividing the team into a controls/programming team and a mechanical/hardware team. Members of our group were asked to research which they would feel more comfortable doing. We also established a reporting procedure for submitting our weekly hours. Ed has assumed responsibility for tracking our weekly hours and accomplishments. A dropbox account was made and an excel template shared with everyone in our group. This will allow everyone to edit the excel sheet while maintaining consistency of information.

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2-11-11

February 16, 2011
We ordered our helicopter, sensors, and micro-controller today.

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Week of Jan 31 -Feb 4

February 9, 2011
The majority of this week was spent researching and gathering all the details to submit our proposal next week. The various parts were divided up amongst the individual members. Jens will edit the final report and Adam will prepare the powerpoint for the presentation.

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YouTube Flight Controls

February 2, 2011

Sample flight by David Mason.



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January 28th, 2011

February 2, 2011
This was the last meeting of the week. Most of the meeting time was spent discussing and reviewing our syllabus. We checked our deadlines for when the proposal was due. We divided up the written portion and Shaq volunteered for the oral portion of our presentation. Assignments we made to update our website and have outlines of our portions of the presentation and report ready by next week.

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January 26, 2001

February 2, 2011
David brought in a commercial micro copter so that we could get a better idea of how it flies. We found some inexpensive model helicopters that we may be able to retrofit with sensors to accomplish our goal. We reviewed our meeting schedules and set out to do more research on our project.

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January 24, 2011

January 26, 2011
Our group met to discuss the prelim research that we did over the weekend. We discussed the various components that we will need to either find or purchase. We also discussed appealing to the Aerospace dept for any spare parts or guidance that they might be able to give us on flight dynamics. We reviewed various design advantages for using a single prop and for using a quad prop. As a conclusion it was decided that even further research will need to be done so that we can make a better educat...
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First Meeting

January 24, 2011
On 1-21-11 our group met for the first time. We established David Mason as our group leader and Jens Johnson as a secondary. We then began to discuss our project ideas. Brain Storming. Some of the ideas for our project included: an aquarium cleaner, an helicopter, a blimp, a UFO. All of which would be autonomous. After some discussion our group decided that it would be interesting and challenging to build an autonomously flying helicopter. Capabilities on the helicopter have been left ...
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