Thursday, December 11, 2014

Preflight Checklist

This week we are going to get the hexacopter up in the air for its maiden flight. In order to achieve this goal, we still need to charge and mount the battery, program our flight controller, and wire everything together. We also noticed an error we made with the power distribution board and have to fix it, but it's an easy fix and will be done soon enough.


Friday, December 5, 2014

Under Pressure

This week, we have shortened the motor wires, soldered the connectors onto the shortened wires, and are planning to attach the extension cables onto the power distribution board today. Once all the cables are attached together, we will attach the power distribution board, the flight controller, and the transmitter. We are thinking of a few different ways of electrically isolating the boards from the carbon fiber frame, but don't have a definite answer yet. We are felling the pressure of a deadline fast approaching and we need to get the hexacopter flying by the end of next week. Hopefully, we will be able to get the fight controller to cooperate with us next week.


Monday, December 1, 2014

It's Christmas Time in the Tech Lab

This week we plan on mounting our power distribution board and getting all the ESC's wired up and ready for flight. We will also continue progress on our flight controller and try to work past the complications. Our landing gear mounts are close to the final design and we will finish printing them soon. The next custom part we will be making is going to have to be our gimbal mount.