Weekend update.

So the Quad is now about 90% assembled.  I wanted to do some testing today, but ran out of time.  I am posting some pictures of what it looks like right now.  When this is all tested and working I will start a new blog with everything a little more organized.  I know this blog isn't really frequented by people outside my circles, but I wanted it to be open so anyone who may be interested.  For now, enjoy/hate my quads current state.  Understand this is not a mass produced store bought quad, all parts were either fabricated by us or ordered separately and assembled by either Jimmy or myself.

Note the ultrasonic mounts on all four cross beams.  They have servos attached that will change the pitch of the sensor to keep them horizontal during flight.

Im using a sensor sheild with the arduino Mega2560 so I can easily distribute power among the sensors.

My silly hinged double decker thing I made to get to the flight controller.

Those black parts were printed on the makerbot printer at the lowest resolution.  You can actually see the different layers of plastic.

yep thats flex tubing conduit you can buy from just about any auto parts place or hardware store, relly wanted the larger ones to be black though, couldn't find any.

Well for now that will have to do.  Tomorrow I will show our progress to our professor before continuing work on it.  Hopefully this week I can see if my code is going to save or destroy this quad.