Alpha 1 Quadcopter
By: Caleb Collard, Andrew Curtis and Zach Hansen
The camera we are using can be used night or day and is going to be mounted on a mount we are going to make on tinkercad. Here's a link to the mount idea we have - https://www.tinkercad.com/things/3ZCeRJEjTmu-smashing-jofo/editv2
The camera we got has infrared imaging and night vision so we can see during the night, The camera also contains bluetooth so we can connect our phone to the camera and see what it sees, to see where the car is going. It also has audio support so we can hear the car and its surroundings.
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The main reason for a camera is, often when you're driving an RC car you have lots of fun and end up going as fast as possible and end up losing sight of it. With the attached camera you can see where your car is at all times.
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We are getting lasers for the car so we know what direction the car and the camera are pointing so we don't go the wrong way and crash the car.
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How are we going to connect to the camera? At first we were going to use an Arduino and sensors to connect our phone, but found out that our camera uses Bluetooth. Bluetooth is very interesting, it uses radio connection instead of wires and connections that can possibly break.
