Flight Aware Systems

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  Project last evening connected and working with the aircraft

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  Main Hardware components that were used for implementation

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  Where inspiration for this project came from and will most likely be further implemented/researched. This is the group that I fly/code for

Inspiration

• My inspiration comes from my past experiences performing long endurance drives

What it does

• When the IMU detects a sudden jerk in the controls of the aircraft it assumes that something has critical has occured such as the pilot falling asleep on the stick or a critical maneuver is being performed

• What the system will then perform is a send this information to a ground control station over the radio frequency modules

How I built it

Materials

• Arduino Uno(s) (2)
• NRF240L1 Modules (2)
• Adafruit BNO055 Orientation IMU Sensor (1)
• Optical LED Display (1)
• Light Emitting Diodes (2)

Challenges I ran into

• Limited amount of tools
  • Unintentionally left my tools and other sensors in a lab that I work in and didn't have
• Working alone did leave much of the thinking and spitballing to myself
  • Without a real team to help develop the idea or help partition the load the project provided to be a bit more challenging because of this which affected the scope access to them

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

• Integrated the use of the positional sensor with the radio transceiver module on the arduino
• Performed this hack solo due to the given circumstances

What I learned

NEVER LEAVE YOUR TOOLS AT THE LAB

What's next for Flight Aware Systems

• Integration with a GPS module
• Smaller form factor
• How to macgyver myself within this hackathon

Built With

• arduino
• controls
• radio