Propelling Ourselves to New Understanding

Propelling Ourselves to New Understanding

Sep 30, 2016 | City Walls

Arriving to Lakeview last Wednesday for class, the City Walls group said hello to the usual assortment of professors, both in person and digital. Professor Fred Briggs came on the screen: “Today, we are working with Arduinos to understand their functionality and how...
Baby, Let’s Get Technical

Baby, Let’s Get Technical

Sep 30, 2016 | augmentedcomms

On October 5th, the class heard a lecture from Thomas, a professor at Old Dominion University and an advisor to the project. In this presentation, we came to understand some of the basic physics and electrical engineering concepts that are key to the success our work....
Sea Rescue Bill of Materials

Sea Rescue Bill of Materials

Sep 30, 2016 | Sea Rescue

Here is our proposed bill of materials. Due to time restraints, we could not build a drone from scratch. Instead, we chose to purchase a prebuilt chassis.The HEXH2O is a waterproof drone chassis that meets all of our requirements. The payload release system is only...
Augmented Comms: How Could This Stuff Work?

Augmented Comms: How Could This Stuff Work?

Sep 28, 2016 | augmentedcomms

Our drone attachment has to be able to achieve one goal: transmit telecommunications (probably from a mobile ground station) to the people in the area. We briefly talked about the problems we are trying to solve in our last post, but let’s revisit it now. Sometimes...