Progress update!

Hi Happy Easter everyone!

Anyway JD here updating the blog again, well I've got a lot to update you guys about our progress these past 2 weeks!

Basically we've got our finally long awaited batteries!

 The monstrous battery for our quad copter, and that means, Angus and me can test out our motors and propellers and see how fast it can go!

As seen above the powerful battery powering up our motor and propeller. If you were there you can feel the vibrations and thrust that it created, it's quite scary that's why we also included a test cage to test it out.

And another thing is that for me the control system designer, I've been testing out the flight for the small quad copter to test out the functions of the Futaba controller as well as the Arduino Pilot Mega 2.6 with mission planner, you can see the videos below showing me testing the landing function of the Quad and also the Loiter mode, where it locked the GPS position and it refuses to move when its being dragged out.

*edit the loiter video I cant seem to upload it but here's the link =) Loiter

And for the the terrestrial drive by leonard here's a sneak preview on our small quadcopter (with jurassic park theme in the background)!

And for the structure of our quadcopter we have a few small additional stuffs for protecting the motor, our distribution board and etc.

The 3D printer building the motor protection cage

the motor protection cage

Cable holders

Distribution board holder

Another distribution board holder

And here's a quick sneak peak on how powerful our motor without the propeller, being tested out after I finally configure the ESC with the APM, which took me a few days to troubleshoot! (that's explain the evil laughter... sorry too excited...)

Last but not least here's Jeremy with his battery loader concept taking shape!!

Let's see in a few weeks time everything will be integrated into one system and we will be able to show off each and everyone's effort to fly the quadcopter successfully!

Anyway cheers guys! Hope you guys have an awesome long weekend! Stay tuned for our next update and hopefully we will assemble the big quad and you can see it fly!!!

Signing of JD =D