RedBullPlane

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  The plane, shortly before its maiden flight!

Inspiration

Too much redbull

What it does

Flies around uncontrollably

How we built it

Hot glue, 3d printed props, speed controls, cardboard, zip ties, soldering, ESP32's, and loooots of redbull. Ground station was written in rust and operated by a Nintendo switch controller from best buy.

Challenges we ran into

• Not enough redbull (just kidding we had too much)
• Too much redbull
• Lost collet for the spindle. Resolved by soldering holes through our propellers and using set screws
• Crummy radios
• Broken microcontrollers with apparent out-of-order execution leading to serial communication to radios. We isolated it deep inside library code, and will contribute a fix after the hackathon. Decided to port code to a new mcu platform

Accomplishments that we're proud of

• See video

What we learned

• Bring a 3d printer.
• Stuff breaks, move on.
• Iterate fast
• Don't lost hope.

What's next for RedBullPlane

https://github.com/dgramop/hackdavis

Built With

• 3d-printed-props
• c++
• cardboard
• esp32
• esp32's
• pla
• redbull
• rfd900x
• rust
• soldering
• speed-controls
• zip-ties