Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “2016-2017”
Progress was slow this week and the Project Lead, Cheng, took the time to teach Ariel and Kristen about the main aspects of UAV Forge. This includes the basic Pixhawk Mission Planner Software (the one Avionics didn’t program), preflight checklist procedures, the quadcopter configuration procedures, auto-flight testing, and flying the quadcopter prototype manually. Propulsion is purchasing a model tilt rotor …
This week, UAV Forge is transitioning their leadership for the next school year. The new Project Leads will be Ariel from Mechanical Design and Kristen from Fabrication. Together, with the Purchasing, Safety, and Document Managers New project leads will determine how the project will continue its journey to completion. The Project Leads will pick the new team leads based on …
UROP: Through sharing our project at the UROP Symposium, we have learned the value of sharing my knowledge with others while also learning from those who are equally as passionate about STEM as we are. FERCo: We were planning our visit to FERCo (Fossil Energy Research Corporation) to use their blackbody source to calibrate the color sensor of our smartphone …
Both our liquid and food subsystem and perform simultaneously. The final setting and code so that both can work together and dispense the appropriate amount of substance is still being worked on. This week the liquid subsystem used a new setup to pressurize the cartridge, an air solenoid valve was included inline with the air pump and the cartridge (syringe). …
Autonomous Boat Week 7 Update It’s week 7 of Spring Quarter and we’re almost finished with fabrication. We are preparing the boat for a launch by the end of June. We have everyone working on their own respective parts and the categories below best summarize the overall group’s effort. The photo shows a closeup of the unfinished wiring on the …
Let us premise this by saying this is an extensive blog post that arguably should be split up into multiple parts, but as this is the submission we made to the 2017 Beall Competition, we thought it’d be best to keep the entirety of it together in one blog post. ——- Krobohand Final Product and Business Case: Final Product Description …
One issue we faced with our data analysis was that our program was picking up the background data and including that in the analysis. We are only interested in the pixels of the charcoal or wood that is burning. Our new program can get rid of the background data and examine only the pixels of interest. The camera has certain …
The Electrical Team has completed energy calculations to determine the required motor horsepower for a range of velocities, masses, and aerodynamic drag. They have also compared the required energy with the solar output in order to begin with energy management strategies. They are still in their research phase, but have finalized their decisions on some major components, including the motor, …
The Propulsion team was originally having trouble getting the tilt-rotor’s servos to rotate the correct direction and they have found a solution: using a programmable servo. The team is still working on replacing the servos on the tilt-rotor prototype. Because the replacement servos are different from the original ones, Propulsion must replace all the servos, on the left and right …
The Propulsion team performed their first flight test with the tandem tilt rotor prototype last Saturday. Unfortunately, the test failed and they burnt the 4 servos on left nacelle. They found that the power wires were in the wrong places and too much power was put into the servos. The replacement servos were on back order, so Propulsion ordered different …
