Quadcopter Drone
Team Members: Dhruv Pranlal, Max Eberle, Azaan Azam, Cesar Colina
In recent years, the growing availability of 3-D printed parts and open-source flight modules has made drone creation very accessible to the general public. With the reduction in cost, quadcopter drone applications that have expanded to include areas such as aerial photography, mapping and surveying, farming (crip spraying), and asset inspection. Given this extensive and ever-changing landscape, Eleven Engineering approached our group with the idea of building a drone using their XInC2 microprocessor. Unlike typical off-the-shelf processors, the XInC2 is a multi-threaded RISC processor designed for real-time wireless duty, making it an exceptional choice for drone implementations. With this project, we set out to design and build a proof-of-concept drone so the capabilities of the XInC2 could be tested.