This week, we didn't do much to work on building the new drone, but we worked a lot with the Inspires. The first day, Will, Chris and I helped Dr. Bill and Sameer clean up the tomato plants and clean the deck. After that, I marked a spot on the new drone frame where we can drill a hole to create a new attach point for the power distribution board. That class went by kinda quick because we talked a lot at the beginning. The next class, Chris, Will, Ilan and I went to try and fly the Inspire but the batteries weren't fully charged and we were getting low voltage warnings, so we charged those batteries. We then tried to fly the mavic, but the remote was dead, so we charged that and used Ilan's phone to fly it over wifi mode instead. We then spent some time talking about the laser cutters and we flew the mavic inside just for fun and to see how well it would handle inside by flying it from the phone. The last day, Chris, Will and I went out front and got the Inspires ready to fly. We could only get Phineas to work, and were going to try and fix Ferb next class, but it took a while to get the one up and running. We ran into a lot of problems, but we finally got it. Refer to my 8-31-17 weblog to see how we fixed it. Next week, I hope to work a bunch on the new drone and drone frame, specifically figuring out where to put the ESC's, flight controller, radio transmitter, and how to attach a gimbal.
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