Turnigey 9x

To control the servo on the drone we required a 9 channel remote receiver. We currently only have a 6 channel remote receiver. We bought the Turnigy 9x 9ch Transmitter w/ Module & 8ch Receiver which has the capabilities to control the servo and control the drone.

We have created a method to attach and detach the power flare from our drone remotely. We are using a pin on the drone that will slide into a whole in the power flare that will allow the drone to carry the power flare. The pin is controlled by a servo connected to ardu pilot so that it can release the flare at any time.

Drone Location Test

To test that the drone can move to a location and drop the power flare we are going to create bluetooth beacons that the drone will travel to and drop the power flare. The bluetooth beacons will be our computer/phone connected to a bluetooth module(GlobalSat BT-3681 Bluetooth GPS Receiver). In theory the drone should fly to the beacon and drop the power flare. We are going to use this t test the range of the drone and how far away it will drop the power flare.

The method we are using is from this follow me example (http://ardupilot.org/copter/docs/ac2_followme.html)