Week 4 April 21-27

This week we brought in the foam and had the CAD drawing printed out to scale in order to cut the plane out accordingly. 

Foam for Main Body

The foam is 10"X30" and fuselage will be 22".  The wings will also be cut out and have a wing span of 18".   These will be cut out and glued together.  The team is working on cutting it out.  To prep for it, the drawings from last week will be printed out in order to be used as stencils on the foam.

KKmulticontroller v.5.5

In the mean time, research was also conducted on trying to discover how to have the plane hover evenly while the rotors are vertical.  The KKmulticontroller v.5.5 “Blackboard”
The Multicopter Flight Controller was found to be the best piece to use.  It will be able to keep the plane in a stable while hovering in order to keep it from flying in an unordered fashion.  This board can control anywhere from 2 to 6 rotors with the simple purpose of stabilizing the aircraft while flying.  It performs this action by taking signals from three different gyros and reads it on its integrated circuit board which processes the information and then sends out a control signal to the Electronic Speed Controllers which are attached to both the board and the motors.  Depending on the signal from circuit board, the electronic speed controllers will either speed the motors up for slow them down in order to keep the aircraft level. Along with keeping the aircraft in a steady flight, it will also allow the aircraft to move forwards, backwards, left, right, up, and down.  This piece of technology will prove to be most helpful when engineering this airplane.