For weeks 3 and 4 has been more concentrated in the building aspect of the project. But those weeks were uttermost disappointing. The goal was to finally create the quadcopter so I can start on the variable manipulation. However I am currently behind schedule because of some unfortunate accidents.
Ideally the wiring of the quadcopter should look like this:
Motors: mechanically rotates the propellers
Electric speed controllers (ESC): Controls the speed of the motors
Receiver: Connects the flight controller to the handheld controller
Flight control: Computer of the quadcopter; has all the sensors to allow the quadcopter to fly
Battery: holds the charge
The reason behind the unfortunate accident was because I plugged a 11.1 V battery into transmitter and flight controller which resulted both micro chips to smoke. This accident hindered the completion of the the control quadcopter. So testing has to be pushed back to a week or two.
So with this in mind, I have only this so far:
Which are just the the electrical speed controller (ESC) wires connected to the motor which are all connected to the power distribution board (the power distribution board just distributes all the current and voltage from the battery, similar to how an outlet works). On the bright side I was able to learn soldering techniques for small micro chip boards like the power distributor board, and the for the short time I had flight controller, the software to calibrate the quadcopter.
All parts lost in the project are currently being replaced and will take two to three days for it to be delivered. The current plan for week 4 is to finally finish the building and test.
Once I get my parts the process of building should be easy and not take as long as it did for me this week. Despite the current drawbacks, I have learned quite a lot and what not to do during the construction of the quadcopter. Most importantly I learned to move on and fix my problems.
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