Week 0 - Final Project Concept Sketches
Week 0 - 7: Brainstorm...
It's really difficult to come up with a final project idea in the first week of class...
brainstormed ideas:- 3D scanner
- Drone
- Ornithopter
- Floating Jellyfish
- Headphones/speakers
- Energy harvesting shoes -> use the energy to do cool things
- Bringing to life my old project Instruballs
Week 7...
After a lot of debate within myself, I really want to make an ornithopter. This week I will think through the process and plan how to make one and make a sketch.
Week 8...
Week 7, I decided on Ornithopters for real. I spent many hours learing about them and thinking of a path to get to the final product. I thought it was all set in stone but no. We’re going to pivot again. A little switcheroo. Back to drones. Yeb. My indecisive libra brain. Why? Because a lot of the TAs really discouraged me from making an ornithopter in a month. Especially since I did not have a clear vision for every step of the process. I originally wanted to make drones. I’m not sure what stopped me. Maybe just seeing Yusuke’s video on the fish ornithopter. But that path kind of closed for now. The controller I got to connect to my ESP32 will still be useful for my drone. And seeing an SLS printer today inspired my generative design idea again.
Now, in week 8, I will finally draw a path for myself to make this cool sick drone happen. Compared to rare material for the ornithopter such as carbon fiber rods, a lot of the materials to make a drone are available in the class inventory.
Wack name: Cool (flying) drone with camera controlled by my Xbox controller Microcontroller: XIAOESP32S3 Chassis: Generative design and nylon 3D printed on SLS printer I will retry generative design again (see Week 3) BUT with my parts / components / forces thought out. A part of me also wants to make it collapsible but I'm not sure how that will work with generative design. Inputs: (because I pivoted last minute, I will come back on Week 8 to work on inputs again)- Accelerometer, gyros, magnetometer?, GPS? (For flight stabilization)
- Camera: SEEED STUDIO XIAO ESP32S3 SENSE (I missed doing this on Week 8 but will come back and add it)
- Battery
- 4 motors
- 4 ESCs
- Propellers (3d printed nylon + carbon fiber mix)
- Display?? To display camera footage
Sketch
