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| = Most Recent Announcement= I would just like to announce that I making the Quadcopter a weekly (maybe twice a week) project that will probably last the whole semester. The stuff that I need help with: |
Meeting times will be on Wednesdays from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm and on Saturdays from 11 am to 1 pm. Both meetings will be held in the physics garage room. = Most Recent Announcement = Since we now have the basic stuff running we can start splitting into groups to finish certain tasks to finish stage 1. Stage 1 will just be making the quadcopter fly at a certain altitude and stay there for a while without moving out of position to much. The task that everyone should do (or at least agree on) are: * Designing a programming interface. * Downloading mercurial or a software sharing/version checker so we can share our code and do team work effectively. * Updating the wiki when doing something and making a document on what you did and why |
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| 1- Choosing an appropriate design that will carry a RaspberryPi, an Ardiuno , and the wires that will connect the circuitry. 2- Determining what sensors and equipment the quadcopter will need and programming them. 3- Making\programming the quadcopter to be stable and can stay level in the air when need be. 4- Making a decent User Interface. 5- Making a good control scheme for phones and pads. 6- Building a simple AI that adjusts the quad copter angle so it becomes stable if thrown. 7- Sending video feedback to the control device if it can receive it(desktop,laptop,phones,ipads,etc...) 8- Adding cool features to the quadcopter (such as lasers and nurf guns, GPS, person tracking, a small robotic arm, etc....) 9- Adding anything you can think of that can be added to make the quadcopter more awesome. |
Now here are the tasks for Stage 1 that you can choose from and do in smaller groups or by yourself: *Learning how to read the gyroscope, accelerometer and controlling the motor speed and maintain stability through programming the Arduino . Probably the most time consuming task. *Programming the communication between the Raspberry pi and Arduino. *Designing and creating a power supply circuit with a battery monitor for both the pi and the Arduino. *Creating the plastic surface that the circuit will be on using the 3D printer. *Setting up Raspberry pi for ssh and other raspberry pi stuff. -Ahmed Saif |
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| == People Involved == * Ahmed Saif |
=== People Involved === * Ahmed Saif : Working on reading sensors and motor control on the Arduino |
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| * Daniel Eckerson * Gautam Das Govardan |
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| Installed the OS for the Raspberry Pi: hostname: soos ask me for the login credentials if interested (mebert at wisc dot edu) I was unable to ping the pi through direct connection to the device. Once we get a switch down here it should be easier to set up for ssh. -Matt I finished setting up the computer in the back for the Arduino. Need golden banana male/female connectors for the motors. -Ahmed ---- |
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| . . . {{attachment:quadcopter-frame-only-2.jpg}} . . . . . . {{attachment:quadcopter-frame-only-3.jpg}} Thanks Matt Ebert, Ian Wisher, Gautam Govardan, and Daniel Eckerson. |
. . Thanks Matt Ebert, Ian Wisher, Gautam Govardan, and Daniel Eckerson for helping out! |
Meeting times will be on Wednesdays from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm and on Saturdays from 11 am to 1 pm. Both meetings will be held in the physics garage room.
Most Recent Announcement
Since we now have the basic stuff running we can start splitting into groups to finish certain tasks to finish stage 1. Stage 1 will just be making the quadcopter fly at a certain altitude and stay there for a while without moving out of position to much. The task that everyone should do (or at least agree on) are:
- Designing a programming interface.
- Downloading mercurial or a software sharing/version checker so we can share our code and do team work effectively.
- Updating the wiki when doing something and making a document on what you did and why
Now here are the tasks for Stage 1 that you can choose from and do in smaller groups or by yourself:
- Learning how to read the gyroscope, accelerometer and controlling the motor speed and maintain stability through programming the Arduino . Probably the most time consuming task.
- Programming the communication between the Raspberry pi and Arduino.
- Designing and creating a power supply circuit with a battery monitor for both the pi and the Arduino.
- Creating the plastic surface that the circuit will be on using the 3D printer.
- Setting up Raspberry pi for ssh and other raspberry pi stuff.
-Ahmed Saif
Quadcopter
- Sending and receiving video signals
- Controlled by laptop, smartphone, game controller
- Basic AI
- ...it's a quadcopter
People Involved
- Ahmed Saif : Working on reading sensors and motor control on the Arduino
- Ayah Almousa
- Matt Ebert
- Daniel Eckerson
- Gautam Das Govardan
Ahmed, will your homegrown copter fly this Saturday?
Resource information at Drones project! - duncan
No, This Saturday (9/14) we will build the frame of the quadcopter then for each subsequent week adding components until we get a full grown quadcopter with whatever add-on we can. -Ahmed
Saturday 9/28/2013:
Installed the OS for the Raspberry Pi:
hostname: soos
ask me for the login credentials if interested (mebert at wisc dot edu)
I was unable to ping the pi through direct connection to the device. Once we get a switch down here it should be easier to set up for ssh.
-Matt
I finished setting up the computer in the back for the Arduino. Need golden banana male/female connectors for the motors.
-Ahmed
Sunday 9/14/2013:
We built the frame of the quadcopter. Here are some of the images we have taken during the assembly:
- . Thanks Matt Ebert, Ian Wisher, Gautam Govardan, and Daniel Eckerson for helping out!