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The Phone In The Sky ---- Quad-Copter For Aerial Video, Heng Wei Zhang
The Phone In The Sky ---- Quad-Copter For Aerial Video, Heng Wei Zhang
Mechanical Engineering and Technology Senior Projects
With the development of aircraft model technology, quadcopters equipped with cameras are used for aerial video more and more frequently. Cell phones, moreover, allow people to share photos online immediately, so many people prefer to take photos or videos by cell phones instead with expensive cameras. Thus, the purpose of this project is to design and build a light weight quadcopter frame and select the system components that allow the quadcopter to fly smoothly while carrying a cell phone for aerial video. The method for creating the quadcopter is separated into three steps: design, build, and test. The design part …