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=Project 2= Here is the associated /CDIO/ page.

Week 0
Preferred Projects My testing of the quad-copter has begun. Research on how to Improve quad-copter has also begun.
 * Quad-Copter
 * ROS - Raspberry Kinect

Things to Improve

 * 1) Battery Life- The quad-copters flight time is awful averaging 10-15 min. of flight time. This is the first improvement that must be made.
 * 2) Increase Flight Range- Improving the flight range seems to be a simple and logical task. There seems to be two main ways of extending range 1.Using a Wifi-bridge 2.Replacing Wifi with a Radio-Control.
 * 3) Cameras- The cameras on the Ar-Drone 1.0 work but can definitely be improved. upgrading software and hardware to 2.0 seems to be a good way of doing this.
 * 4) X-Box control/RC Control- The Ar-Drone is fairly difficult to control with a Iphone. Switching the control to a X-box/Radio-Controller would improve flight.

Week 1
- I had trouble getting the quad-copter to take off in the kitchen. I decided it was not enough room for take off. Moved to living room. Flew the copter up a flight of stairs into bed room.

Week 2
- I decided that im going to use Homebrew and Node.js to install Tootallnates Scripts to command the Ar.drone through my mac computer. Homebrew and Node.js are package managers required to install the Ar.drone software.

Week 3
- I started installing Homebrew and node.js and began installing the scripts required to controll Ar.drone through a mac. It looked like there where some scripts missing and a hard install was required.

Week 4
- I began to find solutions for the several error messages found during installation of dependencies for Ar-Drone joy stick and ar drone-video