28 March

Making great strides on the final paper, should be pretty much done by the end of this weekend.

26 March

Started working on the Final paper.
Fixed the Telemaster this weekend with Mr. Ogorek's help.
Going to get the autpilot configured on the futaba controller.
Will try to schedule a flight with the autopilot soon.

Need to pull ESC data tonight.

19 March

Flew the Telemaster, gonna pull the ESC data tonight
Worked with Brian yesterday and got the Autopilot working
AP can now fly the plane in the X-Plan simulator.
Going to begin work soon on the final papers

1 Mar

Worked with Brian on the AutoPilot
Got the Autopilot, BEC and CC link for my laptop
Recorded the current consumption of the AP and all the attached modules
Started putting the electronics in the Telemaster

27 Feb

Still waiting on parts and autopilot telemetry
Started to develop image recognition system with MATLAB
Alphanumeric recognition:

Converts image taken from camera into text
Got the video from the test camera through my laptop's usb driver
worked rather well
had to hand-select the image to process though
need to figure out how to automatically select the text image input and crop accordingly
was really easy to get the camera feed through matlab

20 Feb

Tried to get block camera working today... no luck
Helped Ryan with the hotwire
Cut some foam for the aircraft

19 Feb

Tested camera video feed on Thursday

Was a little scratchy but, overall successful

Now we know this will work for our UAS up to 2 mi

BEC and other misc electronics parts ordered from Hobby Town

Frank is supposed to call me when they come in