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Flying a $5 glider
​This project was inspired by not wanting to pay $200 for a glider at the hobby shop. I spotted a toy foam glider at Walmart that was meant to be thrown, and picked it up to be the body for my airplane. Next I purchased a multitude of servo motors, a brushless motor for the prop and a electronic speed control (ESC) to vary the speed of my throttle.

​The Build:
To assemble I cut and hollowed out the cabin making room for peripheral electronics such as the receiver and a microcontroller to run operations. Notches were made in the tail fin to fit in a rudder that was operated by a turning servo motor. The elevator worked similarly on a joined fin that was powered by a servo with a calibrated arm movement. A wooden plate was fastened to the nose cap to create a surface to mount the brushless motor. The motor was then attached and a prop was added. Electronics were wired to the cabin onto a piece of perforated board where the 
microcontroller was soldered. The receiver delivered the incoming signal to the microcontroller where the code, I wrote, decided which commands to send to the mechanical parts. 

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  • About Me
  • Gallery
  • Projects
    • SUBLEQ Processor
    • Nintimdo RP
    • Gamecube Virtual Disk Drive
    • Ticket Torpedo
    • Audio Synthesizer
    • Project Icarus
    • Text to Braille
    • Uranium Random Number Generator
    • Speaker Recognition
    • Calculators
    • Modified $5 Glider
    • Building Transistors
    • Enigma Simulator
    • B-Reader: The Braille Kindle
    • Flopperatus
    • Wind Turbine
    • Sensor Web
    • Building Heat Sinks
    • Mars Rover
  • Experience
    • Work
    • Research
    • Resume