Baby, Let’s Get Technical

Baby, Let’s Get Technical

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....
Augmented Comms: How Could This Stuff Work?

Augmented Comms: How Could This Stuff Work?

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...
Getting Things Rolling with Augmented Communications

Getting Things Rolling with Augmented Communications

In the last week of August, 2005, Hurricane Katrina rocked the gulf coast. Some victims of the storm were stranded and without communications for several weeks–315,000 people were still without cell service two weeks after Katrina relented. Katrina took out...