This autonomous drone will be under $300 and is purposed to fly autonomously through the raspberry MAVLINK protocol. The raspberry pi will also have computer vision to detect fires and report them to fire stations and optionally put them out with a CO2 bomb.
Wow, today was a rough day. I got my new ESC and I resoldered all the connection perfectly but instead of 1 motor not working all weren’t working. I ordered a new one and intend to check the wiring more meticulously before concluding that it is a FC problem. I am going on a trip for th 20th to the 20th so I will be foreced to only work on software until I come back. Wish me Luck PLS.
Today was a sad day. My new wires came and i replaced them but the one motor still didn’t work. I then narrowed everything down to a baord problem which may have gotten damaged due to my lousy soldering job or some condition before. I ordered a new board will be going on vacation, I can only hope the board arrvies before i go on vacation or i will be left to improve fine tune and perfect my ML and software for this.
Tested the drone with the battery again and the one motor still didn’t work. I also calibrated msot of the sensors included the accelerometer, GPS, and compass. I replaced the motor again and it still didn’t work. I came to the conclusion that it is probably a ESC board problem or a wiring issue. New wires come tomorrow, meaning i can narrow down the issue and do what i can to fix the problem.
Plugged in battery and tested. Found a few bugs. Bug one: one of the motors didn’t work. I resoldered all connections and replaced the motor with a working one, but the motor still didn’t spin. So then I uncapped the battery pull from the motor to see if it was a power issue. The motor still didn’t spin. Then I resoldered all connections, but the motor still didn’t spin. Then I came to the conclusion that it was an issue with the connecting bullet plug wires, so I ordered them. I also wrote some of the code for the Python autonomous flight by SSHing into the Raspberry Pi.
designed and printed antire drone chassis.
Designed and assembled the legs for my drone. I also soldered some electronic connections to the ESC (Electronic Speed Controller).
fully printed and designed arms for my autonomous fire fighting and detecting drone
