Techshop Meeting

On February 26th our group visited Pittsburgh Techshop to have a meeting with Ryan Bates on the current status of our project and the future of what we will be doing. In the meeting, we discussed how we would distribute power across the drone using only one battery. He recommended the LM7805 linear regulator to distribute power from the battery of the drone into other features of our project, including the radio receiver and the servo to drop the power flare. More importantly, we discussed the mission plan of the drone when put into the avalanche zone. First the drone will roam the avalanche zone until it detects a radio signal from the emergency beacon the victim has on the beacon. When it enters the radius of the radio signal it will begin roam inside the radio signal radius area while recording the current strength of the signal. When it completes roaming the area it will move to the area where the radio strength was the strongest and drops the power flare. At any point if the done drops below 15% battery then it will return to "home base" and exit the avalanche zone. Our data can be seen in the picture below along with the mission plan. Big thanks to Ryan Bates for being such a huge help.