User:Spark93/enes100/my work 2

Helicopter Project, Part 2.

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 wored with Shatton8111 mounted at DC motor on to a block of wood and then hooked it up to an arduino. We ran a spin up test that Steve wrote up. 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, we thought something was wrong with the motor because there wastoo much fricticon between the wood and motor. 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. Flight Test

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.

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.

Complete Project Page
Follow the "project done" format.