Unfortunately one of the motors on the quadcopter had died. This directly affected the tuning of the PID controller and until I can get my hands on a spare one, or more specifically install one next week I can’t test. For the moment I have focused my attention on one of the substantial problems I […]
Month: March 2013
Temperature Sensor and Raspberry PI
So I was playing around with my PI and Temperature sensor, mainly because I spent a considerable amount of time watching one my dear friends (*Lewis Greyson*) attempting to get a Phidget USB device and a temperature sensor working. This was a much bigger project about monitoring temperatures inside homes. Anyway I wanted to see how […]
PID Controller
Since the last post, I have added a PID Controller to the quadcopter in the hope of stabilizing the oscillations experienced from my last test. I have also notice that the application causes a considerable amount of CPU load which intern has an adverse effect on flight and data communication. For this reason I have spent some time optimizing code and […]
Lincoln Uni CanJam
So the other week, There was the University of Lincoln Computing Society’s CanJam, I was helping organize the event and was asked to pose for some pictures. I ended up in the Lincolnshire Echo. Overall the day was great, There were many really cool games that were developed by students who presented their games to a panel […]
Flight Test With Ultrasonic Sensor
Unfortunately the replacement Ardunuo board took longer than expected to arrive which delayed getting the ultrasonic sensor working considerably. Once assembled the sensor worked very well, however it was observed that when it is powered from the 5v out from the PI the values unusable, this is likely because the PI did not have enough […]
