8/29/17

Today had decent conditions for flying, but our attempts were plagued by a lot of little problems with each drone. We went in to fly the Inspires, but found that the batteries were all dead. On top of that, we still need to do some more firmware updates for those drones. Next, we moved on to the Mavic, but discovered that the remote was dead as well. This is a problem that I encountered in Iceland the very first time I tried to fly my drone over there. It has proven to be tricky in the past as well, given that the Mavic's controller has significantly less battery life than those of the Inspire. The way I got around that problem in Iceland was by using the drone's "WiFi Mode", which enables the user to fly the drone using only the app, with virtual joysticks on the screen. This method, however, was extremely limiting and only allowed us to fly the drone about 100 feet away, and at very slow speeds. After our bout with the drones, Daniel and I went over to work on the drone we're building. Daniel saw that we needed to drill one more hole in order to attach the power distribution board with good stability, so he made a mark in that spot. I also took some pictures on this day of him making small adjustments to the distribution board.