User:Dcaldero8983/enes100/flyers

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Give instructor top 3 project choice list
My top three project preferences were 1. Helicopter, 2. Hovercraft, and 3. Engine.

Write problem statement
The Drone has ADHOC wifi connection that can pair up to any device with wifi connection. My Android phone has wifi connection but was not recieving succeful connection.

Assign Task1
Connect Android powered phone with AR Drone and establish flight.

Compare actual work done to Task1
I was able to fly the AR Drone with my Android powered phone

Week1 Narrative
This AR Drone was not establishing connection via wifi with any device. The lights on the bottom of the drone as well as under each propeller, where lit as red meaning there is no pairing with any device. When the light turns green, this mean that there has been a pairing with another device.

Week1 Peer Review
Go to each team mates weekly summary wiki page. Read their activities and narrative. Then go the associated discussion page. Say something positive on this page. Try some constructive criticism. Add your name and 1sfoerster 13:32, 28 August 2011 (UTC) to create a time and date stamp. Create a new category if another team mate has already commented here.

Assign Task2
Research through the internet for videos of methods to fly the drone other then using applications with devices like IPods and Android. Also look for software to link up PC with the Drone.

Compare actual work done to Task2
The Xbox Kinect is working with the PC and captures all movements. Good performing programs and software is still being searched so that it could function the Kinect as a remote capturing body movements that will send signals to the Drone and undergo flight.

Week2 Narrative
I recorded a short video of the Drone in live from the view of its Camera. As you can see the Drone was being flown for a few seconds before it landed and then picked up by me. This is just to help you visualize how you would have to view through the camera in live action in order to fly the Drone and spy without being seen in person. The video can be seen on youtube when clicked on the blue link that follows The Drone.

Week2 Peer Review
I left positive review for fellow team mates as well as encouraged another team mate to include information to their individual weekly summary wiki pages.

Assign Task3
I still need to find the correct software or program that will operate with the Kinect, PC, and Drone all together. Im still in search due to that previous softwares were scams and only full of viruses.

Compare actual work done to Task3
Working on the drone during week 3 we surfaced a few problems. First, the laptop caught a virus from one of the software's we were trying to install in order to work the kinect with the Drone through the PC. After that, we noticed that the drone was not taking flight as one of the propellers was not functioning right and the drone would automatically cut off. We managed to fix the propellor and i was once again able to establish flight through my android. As the 4 weeks of working on the drone are almost over, i decided to go ahead and observe how much weight the drone can pick up off the ground and fly over ground. I quickly tied a string and a weight of 50g to the drone and the drone took off, even though it is a lot harder flying the drone successfully with a heavy weight compared to the capacity the drone can handle as the drone would loose its balance.

Week3 Narrative
The drone is hard to fly steady with weight attached to it especially with a string that is dangling the weight. In this video you can see the drone take off with 50g of weight attached to you, the video was recorded using both cameras that the drone has, the front camera and the camera underneath the drone filming anything underneath it. The Drone carrying 50g

Week3 Peer Review
Comments for both team members were made for week 3 in their discussion page

Assign Task4
Week 4 is our last week to work on this project, we plan on working harder to hopefully get the kinect to work in full with the laptop and drone. In the meanwhile i will try to find a more sophisticated way to attach weight to the drone so the drone can fly steadily with a maximum capacity of weight for the drone which is at greater than or equal to 50g.

Compare actual work done to Task4
Week 4 was extremely short since Monday class was canceled and most of the students werent in class, then on Wednesday we were introduced to our new project as well as our new team members. This took up most of the time wednesday and so all that was done for week 4 was to find out what weight the drone could not pick up. The drone could not manage to pick up anything more than 60 grams of weight properly and it still had a lot of trouble in flight and balancing.

Week4 Peer Review
Comments to team member's pages were made in their discussion page.

Complete Project Page
The time period of 4 weeks are over with and much was done with the drone. Even though we weren't able to successfully fly the drone using the Kinect, we are still working on the drone for the next 4 weeks and we have an addition to our team adding one more member to help push this project even further. My next target is working the arduino to help control the accelerometer of the drone.

10/10/0 .... lack of class time is not an excuse ... room was open ... could have worked at home ... 1sfoerster 13:44, 17 October 2011 (UTC)