A lot has happened since we have made our previous design in March. We tested that design out and the arms ended up seeming pretty strong when we tried to flex them. Because the drone was a flat plate, we had trouble organizing wires and…

You’ve finished laying out your website, and it’s time to make it look good — so you pull out your CSS skills and make some cool transitions! Or maybe you like things simple,and just change the colors and fonts around little bit. Many people are happy to write their own…

In my previous article, I talked about how to get setup using Jekyll. I also mentioned in the title how Jekyll’s templating allows you to develop websites a lot more quickly. In this article, I will go over some more advanced features of Jekyll that will really boost your web-dev…

Our team at AmadorUAVs has decided on building a smaller quadcopter, mainly for use as a test bench for technologies that will be going on our main drone — such as the autopilot, image recognition, and cargo drop systems. Currently, our club has very little funds so it is impractical…

In the previous article, I talked about how our team switched to using Github Pages for hosting our website. Now that I had a repo set up, it was time to actually make the website. Now, copying over the old site was not directly an option — it was written…

by Kalyan Sriram When I first wrote our website a while back, I had to choose a good way to build a modern website. So I turned to the “cool kid” approach by using Angular2. For those who don’t know, Angular is a web framework based on node.js that helps…

When Python doesn’t cut it, you can plug other languages into Python. — by Vincent Wang Python has a neat, slightly hidden feature built into it — it can interface with other languages. Basically, in addition to normal Python code, you can also import C/C++ packages, Java modules, and more! Let’s break down the ways you can have Python interface with other languages: Python and C/C++ …

Building a plane is hard. We found out the hard way. Our AmadorUAVs team met on a sunny Sunday morning to build our first plane prototype, Calix-0. We had an ambitious goal: Finish building our prototype in just 4 hours. While the software team was busy finalizing the software stack…

With FDM(Fused Deposition Modeling) printers becoming more readily available, the ability to create parts, for both modeling and prototyping, has never been more effortless. With a press of a button, anyone can produce complex shapes and bring their CAD designs to life. Thanks to FDM technology, 3D printing has been…