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08/22/16

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...

09/02/16

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...

09/06/16

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...

09/08/16

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 ...

1/10/17

Today we had perfect conditions for flying with clear blue skies and light winds. We spent the entirety of the class period flying and got a few vide...

1/12/17

Today was a beautiful day with blue skies and no wind at all. For the beginning of the period Chris, Dr. Bill, and I organized our workspace. We clea...

1/16/17

Today was a bit of a down day with Chris home sick and good conditions for flying but very flat lighting. We are still trying to figure out with Mrs....

1/18/17

Today Chris and I gave our first semester presentation to Mrs. Petteys in the conference room. We had a Google Slides presentation prepared that cove...

1/19/17

Today had light winds and partly cloudy skies, but the lighting was not good at all for flying. It being 1 in the afternoon, we had the flattest ligh...

1/23/17

Today wasn't the best day for getting actual footage with the drone, but was clear and had very light winds. This made it a great day for Chris to ge...

1/25/17

Today was a beautiful day but unfortunately the tradewinds are back again. This past week or so has seen almost nonstop trades gusting down the hill ...

1/26/17

During today's class, the wind was fine for flying, but it was pretty much overcast with very flat lighting. We didn't fly during class, but did fly t...

1/30/17

Today was a beautiful day, but had extremely high winds. The max wind speed recorded by the Energy Lab's weather station was 46mph. Given that we can...

1/9/17

Today we had our first class of the semester, however, it was only a 45 minute class period. Worth noting is the absence of Zack Gooding. Zack no lon...

10/11/16

Today we couldn't film because of wind and rain, so we went down to Mr. Bernstein's room to get the microSD card from the drone that he had been usin...

10/11/17

Today in class we had a visit from an employee of the Keck Observatory. At first we all went around and talked to him about our current projects, and...

10/12/16

Today Chris was absent and we had a shorter class period than usual due to parents' weekend. Zack and I organized all of the drone stuff and decided ...

10/13/16

Today we had parents visiting our class, so we spent the majority of the time explaining and answering questions about our project. Chris was back to...

10/13/17

Today was definitely not the day to fly, with very heavy rains, thunderstorms, and high winds. Daniel wasn't in class today either, so I wasn't able ...

10/16/17

I was not present for today's class.