Items required and Budget
Schematics for a possible plane design with circa ~1.1m wings span.
constrains are :
- robust so that it can crash and fly again
- powerful in order to carry weight (camera / video transmitter / become musical instrument)
- small so that it can be easily transport in various location
- good flying capability so the pilot can concentrate on partition and performance more than on keeping the plane in the air
- slow flying
- good maneuverability
- cheap
- quick build
Is possible to automate any of the flying devices using something like the ArduPilot that has already a very advanced interface:
Other more simple ways could follow the principles of the glider category F1A or F1H that follow simple patterns and depend on thermal lift. We can certainly add powered systems an even consider a VSI (vertical speed indicator) to ascertain that level flight is being maintained. A simpler type does not need an external source of power and can therefore be relied upon to function regardless of whether a battery or power source has been fitted. The electronic type with audio needs a power source to be operative during the flight. (source: wikipedia). Example: https://store.3drobotics.com/products/airspeed-kit-with-mpxv7002dp
Can it be all automated (including landing), so that 3 plane can be in the sky?
One can have a plane circling at least, but yes we need another pair of eyes.. landing might be possible since the gps is supposed to be quite accurate, it has a compass/magnetometer to compute corrections. Is also question of learning the Mission Planner software, there should be a way to log and repeat a certain flight pattern. Wind direction changes should be corrected by the GPS tasks assigned.
Further on we could expand the research to the speed control of the motors based on pre-programmed routines that can be repeated by the different planes in the air. Such automation can be accomplished via on-board micro-controllers (Ardupilot compatible http://www.diydrones.com/notes/ArduPilot).
-3 motors
-3 propellers
-3 AMP (Arduflyier)
-3 power module
- 1 Battery
- 1 Video Camera
- 1 Video transmitter
- 1 x 5,8ghz antennas
- Cables
- 3 ardupilot
- 3 raspberry pi
- OSD
- Receiver Video signal Receiver
- videoprojector (?) or TV + soundsystem
- tape _
Estimation of material that the artists bring (no receipts) : 500 euros estimation of material already bought (for this production - with receipt ) : 400 euros estimation of what is still to buy : ?...
So that's the 400€ already spend. (everything that we already have).
Everything related to performance : ardupilot / raspberry pi / video transmitter etc is also things that we already bought. you can also count on 500€ each minimum of multimedia material that we already have. (but without invoices) do you need details on what we already have and bring? details about what we bought?
