Flying without any of the five senses

Flying without any of the five senses

Ryan Bendremer

Today we made a new design for the frame of the snitch. It is a thinner and lighter design that will give the snitch a higher chance of the motors lifting itself. This design also enhances a new motor mount that we laser cut and it will improve the stability of the craft. We also made several versions of the laser cut motor mount. The final design had to be screwed on and snapped in which makes the motor on a stable point where it can fly best. Jibreel also made some diagrams but we decided it would look cleaner and professional if we used illustrator. We put all the motors and propellers in so that it can be tested soon. It turns out that we couldn’t test during the regular day but it happened to be that we all could stay to try to get it running. We set up a different guide wire test by making the lines higher up. There happened to be 3A controllers so we had to look for the one that was paired. After a while we found the one that was connected and it still wouldn’t make it work. Finally we found out that the speed controller was put in the wrong way and now it worked. With David’s hand for support so it didn’t fly all over it was definitely flying and the test was a success! We also want the snitch to be able to turn so Chris donated a broken mini quadcopter motor. He gave us to. On the ends of the motor mount we also put a little hole on each side so the motor could go on. Today we made another step to the final flight with all the sensors working!