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Week 16-Team Quadcopter – now Team Tricopter

Here at Camp Tricopter, we finally finished the soldering to the wires. Now we got the propellers flying on its own with the assistance of an Arduino. We still have to edit the video and also make a team comment, … Continue reading

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Week 13 – Quadcopter Update

We finally got the new remote controller, and we finally realized that we may have a loose connection on the quadcopter. We are still examining it and hopefully we can get it to fly by next week. We have also … Continue reading

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Week 14 – We had a couple of booboos

Who knew that a tiny quadcopter could be mischeavous. When we thought there was one mode, there were two. When we thought we needed more power for the quad, it comes in and it weighs too much and we can’t … Continue reading

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Week 13 Journal Entry

An update from Team Quadcopter. We are still waiting on the arrival of our battery, but the good news is we will be performing the weight test today, and well as start programming the arduino. We will also solder the … Continue reading

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Week 13 Journal Entry

We have the lily pad ardiuno and are gonna solder it onto the quadcopter and we are waiting for the arrival of the battery that we ordered last week.

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Week 12 Journal Entry

An update from Team Quadcopter. We have finally figured out what we have to for this project. We want more power and we want to be able to get the quadcopter to balance by itself. With a little research and … Continue reading

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Lab 4-RGB LED Color Chooser

Objective– control a LED RGB light with 3 potentiometers and having each potentiometer control one color   Materials: RGB LED light 2x bread boards 3x potentiometers An ardiuno   Procedure: We got our materials We tested the LED light with … Continue reading

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Week 10 Journal Entry

Team Quadcopter is still testing out the quadcopter and still seeing all the possibilities that we can do. I am also still researching how to hook up an ardiuno and control the quadcopter with a phone or tablet. It is … Continue reading

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Lab 3- Servomotors and Potentiometer

Objective-  Control a Servomoter with a knob with the goal. Materials: 1.     Arduino 2.     Servomotor 3.     Jumper Cables 4.     Knob 5.     USB Cable Procedure: 1.     We got our materials. 2.     We tested the arduino with the blink code. 3.     The … Continue reading

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Week 9-Quadcopter update

We have the quadcopter and we are ready! What I have been doing is looking up and researching code and also watching many videos on Youtube on how to manipulate remote controls and a break down of the quadcopters and … Continue reading

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