Getting started by Consultation with Supervisors, Local Shop Staff and Study of Existing Quadrotor

Our team consisted of

• Dr Ahmed - Leading Supervisor
• Dr Didier Talamona - Cage protection cage and modular terrestrial drive Supervisor
• Dr Eugene Wong - Structure Design Supervisor
• Dr Michael Lau - Control System Design Supervisor

• Angus Tang  - System Level Design (SysLeD)
• J.D. Chua - Control System Design (ConSyD)
• Edwin Goh - Robust Quadrotor Structure Design (RoQStr)
• Jeremy Yeo - Modular Payload and Battery Loader (MoPBal)
• Wong B.Z. - Robust Crash Protection Cage (RoCProC)
• Leonard Lim - Motor Terrestrial drive (MoTerD)

So our journey being with our ConSyD, J.D. Chua consultation with Dr Micheal Lau and local shop staff at Fook Hua building. We were really new at building a flying machine therefore the motor in Figure 1 and ESC in Figure 2 brought were just for experimental purposes.

Figure 1 - 5v Motor

Figure 2 - Electronic Speed Controller 20Amp

Figure3 -  The brain, ArduPilot Mega 2.6 Kit with GPS 

In order to understand more about quadcopter we were ripped the existing quadcopter apart after our first and last flight. Our first attempt to fly an existing quadcopter in Figure 4 and 5 with Dr Ahmed. 

Figure 4 - First flight with Dr Ahmed with Existing quadcopter 

Figure 5 - First flight with Dr Ahmed with Existing quadcopter 

After 2 weeks of meddling with software and hardware our ConSyD, J.D. Chua managed to communicate to the 5v motor, he was overjoyed. 

Please enjoy the video and stay tuned, cheers!!!

Video 1 - The motor is alive!