Week 5 ---- Breakthrough

Hi, everyone. After 4 weeks of efforts, the group finally comes to the trial flight stage. However, we were still waiting for the large size 14.8v LiPo battery to arrive. It took us quite a lot of time waiting for the battery but luckily we found an alternative with minor size. The battery, however, was not sufficient for all 4 motors to keep spinning for a long time. Therefore, the large battery is vital for the final flight.

In the tutorial, we had a discuss with Simon about the Raspberry Pi. Kris was confused that the computer seemed to be not connected to the Raspberry Pi since it did not reveal signal of the IP address of the Raspberry Pi. Simon helped Kris find alternatives for the recognition to work.

A picture to reveal the relationship of raspberry pi and the two computers

In the afternoon, we managed to go through several pre-flight checks.

Ran was checking one of the ESCs

Xiaotian was testing the sensibility of the transmitter

Really looking forward to the trial flight test next week!

Until then, I will see you on Wednesday.

Ally & the team