A big question in my mind right now is how best to get started. One way is to work on the rocket design first, then worry about the drone part. I don't really like this approach because the rocket design should be pretty standard, aside from the deploy-able rotors and squeezing all the electronics into the body. I think the much more difficult part of this project is going to be the drone control software. This got me looking for a development platform to work which has all the parts and some sample code to work with. After doing some searching, I found the
Crazepony drone. Looks very interesting, will order one and see. Maybe its possible to attach a WiFi adapter to it in place of the Bluetooth one?
9/22/2016 -- After a bit of a break I am finally starting to pit a project plan together with some milestones. They are:
- Review the Crazypony control software and see how to get the key sensor data needed.
- Look into adding a compass module to the drone. Even though the site indicates it supports a compass module, there is no documentation how to do this.
- Mount the drone onto the top of an Estes air rocket as a prototype. Though ot the most stable or ideal prototype it should allow testing of the navigation software without investing time and money is designing the rocket part of the project.
- Develop basic Desktop Java based control software for testing concept.
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