03 Feb

Color threshold + web cam: Video size: 800 * 500 ML model + web cam: Video size: 400 * 250 The reason why this is slow most of the reasons are because this section takes too long to run: # take too long this step for i in range(h): for j in range(w):...

24 Jan

This week, we started to get all the new members know how to build a blimp from sketch. Next week, we will be working on the altitude control using ultrasonic sensor. Meanwhile, some ideas that we are thinking about: (1) Modify the propulsion system, use only 1 motors at the side of blimp...

11 Jan

Problems that I've been thinking about: How can collaborative code development be more efficient? How do avoid conflict when multiple people are developing? How make the code more readable, easy to maintain and debug? A successful Git branching model: (Simplified version) A example...

06 Nov

We manually turn the green_ball_capture condition into True and tried to let blimp get into the hoop: The successful attempt with manual True condition:

02 Nov

The first line are the individual tests for a single esp32 cam connecting to the router. The second line is two esp32-cam connecting to the router and running at the same time:

27 Oct

The PID control on horizontal direction was not good (Failed test): The PID control on vertical direction was not good (Failed test): After we fine-tuned the PID control, it worked great (successful test):

26 Oct

During the experiment, we would like to do a extrem test on the ESP32 CAM since this is the most important camera that we will use on the blimp. Then we observed the folllowing situations: Corrupted images transferring back after some run time and recording: After first, I thought it was...