3D Tetris! Part 1 – Overview and Hardware

Why hello there! It’s been awhile since the last post, so let’s jump in! I’ve been busy with a few projects, and with another semester of college ending. One of these projects is 3D Tetris!

3D Tetris Completed!

Building A Quadcopter! – Part 3 – “Bring the Pain!”

This is my build log post on the quadcopter. Today is the introduction of almost flying the craft, but held-up with just a small problem: Stabilization.

If your just joining in, make sure to catch-up on the previous two parts of the Build Log:

[ Part One – “Theory and Controls” ]

[ Part Two – “The Body of the Quadcopter” ]

Ok, continuing on, if you haven’t caught the name of the quadcopter yet, it’s name is: Black Dragon. Due to how evil the stabilization tests have been, and for the fact that the color of the craft is black.

If you haven’t caught the video, here’s me trying to fly the quadcopter without any stabilization. This is why I need to build a test platform:

Building A Quadcopter! – Part 2

Hello there! During the meantime since the last blog post, I have been busily working on the quadcopter (and getting called into work alot). It has been taking much longer than I expected, but it is finally nearing completion! Taking a break for now from the stabilization tests (lots of pain!), here’s the log on how to build a quadcopter from various parts that you choose, and not just buy a kit:

(also, read everything! You might find the name of the quadcopter hidden somewhere…)

Building A Quadcopter! – Part 1

Why hello there!

So for this summer, one of the projects I’m working on is building a quadcopter (or quadrocopter, I prefer this, but both can be used). With exams at school almost over, I have ordered the parts necessary for the project. Unfortunately to keep costs down, I ordered some parts from China, and am still waiting for the parts to come in the mail. While waiting for the parts to come in, I did get some of the US ordered parts in, mainly from SparkFun. While I did get some parts for another project after this one, The one main part I got was the accelerometer/gyrometer (Part: MPU-6050) for the quadcopter, as shown below:

One Button Timer – An Easy Programming Project?

Hello again! Seems like its been awhile since I’ve done a blog post! But maybe there’s a chance I’ll continue this time…

So, I decided to make a quick project, a one button timer, or per-say, a one button reprogrammable timer. How does it work?