Drone Prototype .1

For the mechanical design, I used Solidworks to design the parts. I designed a central plate for the pi board and flight controller to sit, and for the camera gimbal to attach to. I accounted for the size of the propellers to make correctly sized drone arms. I also accounted for tolerances on where the parts that needed to be applied. 

To prototype it, I used my Bambu P1P 3D-Printer. I printed in PETG since I wanted to use less material to make the weight minimal. PETG is a strong plastic which allowed me to use less infill, but keep the strength up.

For the PCB design, I have used fritzing to design the flight controller. The flight controller is mainly controlled by an ATmega2560/Arduino MEGA. The flight controller controls the speed of the motors and includes a gyroscope for orientation balance. There are also some alert parts that are used to alert of low battery, etc.