We sent our shots from the kohala coastline to Greg, the environmental surveyor. We did the simulator. We learned a great new takeoff method. Someone...
This week was built up to flying at the research station for Greg. We started idle, as always, messing around with our simulator that we finally inst...
This week felt idle. I talked with Hawaii Volcano Observatory and with Hawaii County Civil Defense about shooting video. It seems like such a harmles...
Today we did two things. We practiced flying, and we got pictures of Mr. Emmons orchard near the elab. Once GPS kicked in we were good to go, but oft...
Let me start out by saying this weblog is late. It should have been turned in last friday. Read it as if it had been posted on friday:
This ...
This week, we became familiar with the drones and maps of ala ala kahakai coast. The first thing we needed to figure out was the area we would st...
We started working on (or at least learning about) an induction charger for twelve volt battery. The ultimate goal is to land the drone on a pad, hav...
This week we learned about pix4d, an impressive new mapping program that takes geolocated images and converts them into 3d models. We downloaded and ...
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The most important thing that happened this week was getting the bluetooth datalink to work and testing it out. To finally get it to function, we upd...
We spent the whole week futilely trying to install the datalink. We ran into the same reproducible error over and over again. It said, "Unable to han...
This week Juan and I found a Bluetooth data link and tried to install it. We opened the drone by unscrewing a bunch of screws. We got to see the moth...
Using less to read a hidden file I made:
[Screen Shot 2014-08-29 at 10.15.35 AM.png]Navigating to my Documents directory and making a secret file vi...
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analog: 0-5
-->huge range
digital: on/off
--> 1/0
-->+5V
-->+5V | 0V | -5V
CO2 sensor
-->analog
-->CWLSHTA
-->made by Veris
digital temperatu...
The link below leads to my quarter recap video.
Note: Many of the stock photos were not taken by me or Jack.
I uploaded it to youtube because the ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-Ao5aDJ7AE
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGHCCeXjsAM&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNirvRMaC38&feature=youtu.be