User:Ryan Decker/ENES-100/Project 1

My First Task
Personal preferences for class projects in ranked order are:

1. Quadcopter

2. Knock Knock

3. ROS - Raspberry Kinect

Week 1 Narrative
I charged my ipod and the AR Drone to full battery and watched the tutorial flight videos off of Parrot's AR Drone website. There were several breaks in the foam body of the drone and the external shells. I repaired these with super glue. I took several test flights with the AR Drone to learn to fly the drone correctly. Temporarily mounted the action cam to the bottom of the AR Drone. Fully deconstructed an AR Drone after smelling burning and concluding that the AR Drone no longer works. Combined the internal circuitry of Ji's AR Drone with my body and rotors in an attempt to make 1 working drone instead of 2 non working ones. Here's the associated /CDIO/ page

My Second Task
I'm going to swap out internal circuitry from my AR Drone that was disassembled do to the burning smell, and see which circuitry is faulty and what still works.

Week 2 Narrative
I replaced the propeller mount for an AR Drone with the new, extra mount found in the box because the current propeller mount on this quadcopter has split in half due to impacts from landing. Figured out that the tool other than the screwdriver in the tool kit has the oddly specific purpose of removing the rings that keep the propellers attached.

/Mount_Replacement/

My Third Task
I will replace the propeller mount for the second AR Drone and try to find a way to possibly repair the two broken propeller mounts so they can be salvaged instead of thrown away. Still need to find out which circuitry components from the third quadcopter are still functional.

Week 4 Narrative
The Quadcopter project is being handed off to a new group. I have gone back and revised my CDIO pages and grouped them together under the Quad Copter section of the Project #1 engineering projects.