User:Spark93/enes100/my work 3

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My First Task
What are you going to do for the team this first weekend?

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

Week1 Narrative
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My Second Task
Record what you are planning on doing for the team during the second weekend.

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

Week2 Narrative
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My Third task
Record what you are planning on doing for the team during the third weekend.

Summary of actual work over third weekend
What i did over break is look at last semesters helicopter projects and design a landing gear for the quadcopter.

Week3 Narrative
So i look through all the last helicopter projects was reading and summarizing their work. Most of them played around with the Parrot Drone and flew it around. While other groups tried to build their own quadcopter. Looking through their work, most of the groups go as far as just getting a motor to spin using an arduino. Besides that they documented what they were trying to do. Some were flying the Parrot Drone and used to to play games for it on their smartphones. Drone Games But my main focus on is looking for the groups that took apart the parrot Drone so I could get a better understanding of who to disassemble the Drone and put a better landing gear on it. It took awhile finding the pictures of the inner components because the group didnt really say they took it apart. Many clicking links and reading peoples works later, finally found a person who took pictures of the inner parts of the Parrot Drone. Drone Parts

My Fourth task
Try to design and create a better landing gear for the Parrot Drone

Summary of actual work over fourth weekend
What I did this week was I tried to go to use 123D to make a model of a landing gear for the Parrot Drone.

Week4 Narrative
So this weekend I was look at the current drone landing gear.Parrot Landing Gear After I saw way this is not an effective (made out of plastic), everytime it would land on a hard surface(tiles, concrete floors) it would probably break. So i look online to see other quadcopters other people have built to brainstrom a new design for a new one. I think the easiest one is one.Pole Landing gear because you just need to poles on the bottom of the drone but might tip over if you land on it wrong. Another design I figured that could work is this one. Plane Landing Gear This would really work on a quadcopter because it has a hydraulic system on it so i can absorb the impact and would break the landing gear. But lets be realistic, its not possible for me to build that because i dont know of anything that has a some hydraulic system like that. Maybe if i bought one it could be down but there is no point of just buying one and assembling it. At the end i ended up trying to tackle this one down to make. Bent Gear This one is simple and looks pretty effictive because you can tell it would be able to absorb the impact from landing. The bent metal/ or aluminum sheet bent like that can at like a spring and take an impact of a hard landing. The next step was trying figure out how to create a model of it in 123D. Im not really used to this program cause i never used it but i did used something similar in high school called but forgot the name of it. After installing the program. it took me like 5 hours to figure out what each feature did. So first awhile it would just crach on me. I dont know why but it would try to make something 3d and seconds later my computer slows down and the programs crashes. After awhile i gave up with it and just go and try to find out the dimensions on it. I couldnt find how they made it but found a video of the maker of that copter flying it.[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yleCmzsYx24&feature=player_embedded#! Quadcopter] Then i later found a video of the military using quadcopter to uses as a spy plane and take out enemies. Military Quadcopter

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