Jose Gomez-Marquez, Little Devices Lab
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/10
Attendance: 1st and 2nd class mandatory (safety + drone intro) email instructor
Prereq: None
BUILD A DRONE // BUILD A DRONE RACECOURSE
Class is full.
Students will learn how to design, build and assemble their own FPV racing drone and work in teams to create a life size drone racing course. Advanced topics such as racing flight behavior, pop up architectural and infrastructure design, and sensor systems will be explored. The instructors will be drone racing professionals and MIT researchers.
In 2014, hobbyists in France decided to attach front-facing cameras and LEDs to their fast-flying drones, racing them “Star Wars-style” through the forest earning them more then 3M YouTube views. Drone racing has since expanded globally and is now featured in mainstream sports on ESPN. The nascent sport still offers plenty of opportunity for vehicle & course design innovation.
Students will learn how to build, fly, and race their own mini FPV racing drone, and work in teams to design, build and test a 1:1 scale drone racing course using 3-D printed components, architectural design, and sensor systems for pilot feedback.
Learn about the different obstacle courses that drone pilots before us have built, then improve upon and build your own. We will explore how different geometries, materials, and arrangements of obstacles affects the performance of a track. Each team’s racecourse will then be tested using biometrics as a measure of course capacity.
No prior flying experience is necessary. Basic safety training session is required. For more information, reach jfgm@mit.edu
Sponsor(s): MIT-SUTD International Design Center
Contact: Jose Gomez-Marquez, N52-373G, 617.674.7516, JFGM@MIT.EDU
| Jan/17 | Tue | 03:00PM-05:00PM | N52-373G |
| Jan/18 | Wed | 03:00PM-05:00PM | N52-373G |
| Jan/20 | Fri | 03:00PM-05:00PM | N52-373G |
| Jan/23 | Mon | 03:00PM-05:00PM | N52-373G |
| Jan/25 | Wed | 03:00PM-05:00PM | N25-373G |
| Jan/27 | Fri | 03:00PM-05:00PM | N52-373G |