Drone Building

This week, we made progress on the overall test of the drone and software programming design. However, issues still existed. Further work will be required to complete. Hardware & Testing We eventually got the Li-po battery and connected it to our drone as the power supply. We found that the battery could work successfully and supply electricity to the device. We also connected all the components together to test the drone. However, the drone could not work very well as we expected. We checked each components seperately and found that the problem was on the gyroscope. The other components worked well. Problems: The gyroscope cannot work after power-on. In details, the arduino board failed to find the gyroscope. It was analysed that there might be several reasons. One was that the gyroscope is broken. For preparation, we decided to purchase a new one. It might be the input voltage which failed to transmitted into the component, or the abnormity of clock signal. ...

In the third week, the whole hardware structure of the drone were completed to support the final operation. There were also great progress on the coding of flying control, but problems and bugs still existed.  Hardware & Testing During this week, we used the male-to-female pin wires to connect the flight controller and the structure of the drone. Under this condition, the complete drone were finished. All functions should be realized based on it.  However, during te test, there were mistakes on the voltage division. After analysis, we found the unexpected connection between the flight controller board and the ESC board. To solve it, we built a shelter for flight controller to ensure that there is no current flow among the surface of the components. In other words, the shelter was a paper box working as an insulator.  The general circuit structure was completed. Moreover, most of the components were tested and ensured to operate normally. ...