11-7-17 / 11-9-17 review

This week, I worked a lot. The first two classes I worked on the big drone. I attached the ESC's to the motors and attached them to the arms of the drone using double sided tape a zip ties. I then attached the wires to the arms using zip ties, and plugged some of the wires into the flight controller. The power wires I left with slack so that I can solder them onto the power distribution board later. I then wired the receiver to the flight controller and found some really helpful links that you can find in my 11-8-17 weblog. There are also some pictures there. The last class of the week, I flew the mavic inside the MonLab for Zoe and took a bunch of pictures for a 3D model. I taught Chris how to fly in such a tight space, and worked a lot with figuring out how to manually keep the drone steady because there was so much magnetic interference in the room that it wouldn't hover very well. Next week, I hope to finish attaching and wiring all the parts of the big drone, and start trying to program it and get it to fly.