Coptershow Success!

Today we presented our project as part of the Senior Design Expo for UCI CSE and EE majors. Overall, it went very well! We can't thank everyone who helped us enough, especially Professor Ihler. Although we were bummed that we did not have a working autopilot system to present, we still had a pretty cool proof-of-concept demo using a breadboard. Sadly, we weren't able to get our final hardware working in time (too many bugs to iron out, and not enough time). If only breadboards were super-light and compact... Nonetheless, our demo was pretty cool, and we also had an amazing video (largely thanks to Hieu and iLife '09) showing the progression of our helicopter and a few demos of us getting various portions working. We'll post the full video soon.

CopterIMU Success!

So we finally were able to communicate with the IMU!

It was quite the magical moment!

A video will be posted soon that demonstrates how we tested the IMU.

CopterBanner!

We just wanted to give a big THANK YOU to Daniel Cuatt, who made us an awesome banner!

Check out his awesome work: http://www.patogrande.com

CopterCode Repository CopterCreated!

We've set up a subversion repository containing our code for the project at Google Code. You can visit the project's homepage for more details. Also, I've created a Google Group to keep our relevant discussions organized. Feel free to do whatever you want with the code, it's GPLv3! If you'd like to contribute, please let us know via the Google Group, and we will consider adding you on as a developer. Original Image

Dissecting the Helicopter (With Pics)

Last Remnants

Copteration "Goodbye World!"

One of our helicopter's four engines appears to have died after we applied too much voltage :-( . We may have to buy a new one. Pictures are forthcoming.

Copteration Success!

On January 9, we presented our design document to the class. It went extremely well and we stayed within the time limits! Good job everyone!

Check out our awesome presentation here:

Mote to the Future

Today we successfully uploaded Blink, an example program that comes with TinyOS, to the mote. Hieu said it looked like Christmas tree lights.