Today Chris and I both worked on our project proposals. After reading through Jeff Marks's proposal, as well as those of Jack Solomon, Nicky Pallesch...
Independent Project Proposal
Aerial Drone Project
Background:
I first heard about the HPA Drone Project through Jack Solomon, who graduated in ...
Today Davy Ragland was in so we got to hear all about the projects he's working on at Stanford. After that, I reviewed Dr. Bill's emails he forwarded...
Today during class we got the chance to listen to two HPA alumni who graduated in 2004. They chatted about what they have done since graduating from ...
Today for the first part of class, we played around with the Oculus Rift. This was my first time every doing anything with VR. After that, we took ou...
This week was cut short one class by Hurricane Madeline. On our first class of the week, on Monday, we got the chance to converse with a couple of HPA...
Today we focused primarily on getting all the drones ready to fly as soon as we get a day with little or no wind. This included organizing supplies a...
Today the wind died down from last class so we had a chance to fly the drone. We took out the Vision drone since it is the cheapest one. We found an ...
This past week consisted primarily of prepping the drones so fly. This included getting everything organized for both Phantom drones and also the two...
Today the wind was light so we attempted to fly the Vision drone. Chris had a mishap and crashed the drone into a pillar outside in the courtyard. Th...
Today it was really windy so the team and I worked on installing firmware for the DJI Inspire. I also started researching FLIR Thermal Imaging camera...
This week overall provided a very steep learning curve for all of us. On Tuesday, Chris crashed the drone into a pillar in the courtyard, and though ...
Project Title: HPA Drone Project
Project Scope: HPA students, faculty, prospective students and parents, and regional farmers (should we acquire th...
Today at the beginning of class Chris and I talked with Mr. Schorn about the Asana project management tool and the possibility of us using it for our...
Today we started by putting the lithium drone batteries which were inflated into the ammo can just in case they catch fire. We also used the FLIR Inf...
Today we didn't do anything drone related but instead listened and asked questions to the Elliot Castner, the founder of the MVP football dummy. His ...
This week we began by getting the drones all up to date on firmware along with the controllers. After a bit of troubleshooting, we were able to insta...
Today we dedicated our time to getting both the Phantom 4 and the Inspire completely ready to fly. Chris brought his GoPro today so we fitted the GoPr...
Today Chris and I made accounts on Asana and set up our page for the HPA Aerial Drone Project. We also added Zack to the page via his HPA gmail and s...
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