User:Spark93/enes100/my work

Write problem/project Goal
What is your wording of the overall problem/project goal? - To create a helicopter that can be controlled and maneuvered.

My First Task
What are you going to do for the team this first weekend? -Research on the concepts of a helicopter and how it works

Summary of actual work over first weekend
So what I did this week was try and get a Dc motor to lift off the ground.

Week1 Narrative
This week I mounted at DC motor on to a block and then hooked it up to an arduino. From the Arduino you want a wire hooked up to the Ground(GND)to the orange wire on the ESC and a wire from the Arduino port 9 to the brown wire on the ESC. After it was hooked up you need to power the ESC with one of the little boxed power supplies and also a cord that powers up an Arduino. First nothing really happened because the bl;ade would just twitch, then later found ou the power souce was the problem. After all that I got the block to hover a bit but not to total flight.



My Second Task
My plan for the second week is to find materials that can be used to build the quad copter.

Summary of actual work over second weekend
How is what you did different than what you planned?

Week2 Narrative
Tell a detailed story describing what you did for your team over the weekend.

My Third task
Record what you are planning on doing for the team during the third weekend.

Summary of actual work over third weekend
Well in this week I go the Thunderbird 9 to spin. There wasnt enough current running through when i first started to try to get it to spin.

Week3 Narrative
Over the weekend I been looking for ideas or blue prints of how we can buil the exactually arudino helicopter. Surfing the net i found couple neat ideas of how some can be build or looked like. Helicopter But i couldnt really find any blue print of how people made the arudino copters. So based on the pictures and older helis, I have a general idea of how it build it like this one. Ardunio Heilcopter

My Fourth task
For the final week I am going to try figure out how to wire up 4 motors to one ardunio.

Summary of actual work over fourth weekend
So I planned to do last week was to got 4 dc motors going but instead have 2 motors running on one arudino.

Week4 Narrative
So I got the 2 motors and wired it to both spin on one ardunio. Once i got everything wired up it took awhile to find out why the motor wasnt spinning. Only one would but on the other. So I got a code that Steve wrote up and ran it through the ardunio program. Then sure enough the motors were spinning but not effeciently. The problem behind this was something was wrong with the power source it was hooked up to. So when it doubt see if there is juice power your machines!!! Here are so picts of the wiring or the 2 motors 1 arduino.....

Complete Project Page
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