User:Ryan Decker/ENES-100/Project 3

Week 0 Narrative
Joined Quadcopter Group with Rami and Carlos

Week 1 Narrative
Followed instructions from Kevin's CDIO pages and installed the AR Drone SDK kit.

My Second Task
Following up the installation and browsing of the software I plan to hook up a 3rd party Xbox 360 controller to my laptop to get the quadcopter to fly.

Week 2 Narrative
Acquired an old nerf gun that was lying around my house and deconstructed it to determine the specifics of the pull back mechanism.

My Third Task
Need to find a way to remotely trigger the pull back mechanism to allow the quadcopter to fire projectiles while flying.

Week 3 Narrative
Carlos and I found a wireless arduino that could be used to control a solenoid I found. Attempted to finally fly the quadcopter using the xbox 360 controller, but was unable to because of an error. Here is the /Flight Attempt/.

My Fourth Task
To find a way to mount the nerf gun on top of the quadcopter with the solenoid, and establish successful flights using the xbox controller.

Week 4 Narrative
After fully charging the quadcopter battery a flight of the quadcopter using the xbox controller was unable to be attempted because the same /error/ from last time kept occurring.