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		<title>A Recap</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 02:48:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s probably quite obvious that we haven&#8217;t had a chance to work on the quad for quite a while recently. As a matter of fact, I had forgotten this blog even existed&#8230; But not to worry! Plans are on the drawing boards for some good changes to our machine that should make stable flight much [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=quadcopter.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8484100&amp;post=266&amp;subd=quadcopter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To be or not to be, That is the question&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 01:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Rolke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If by &#8220;to be&#8221; you mean a flying quadcopter, and &#8220;not to be&#8221; you mean a pile of charred ashes&#8230; Due to the worry that we will end up with the latter if we continue using the battery we have, we are looking into investing in a new LiPo. After spending the past hour or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=quadcopter.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8484100&amp;post=254&amp;subd=quadcopter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8230;Not Taking a Break</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 23:16:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Rolke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, as the school year winds down, and we go into a state of shock realizing how many tests we&#8217;re about to take&#8230; we need not study! There&#8217;s work to be done! So, last weekend Matt and I met up again to get a little more minuscule bits and pieces sorted out. He had been complaining about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=quadcopter.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8484100&amp;post=249&amp;subd=quadcopter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Taking a break</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 04:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matt here! Unfortunately, its looking like we&#8217;re going to need to take another break on our quadcopter project. Our Botball season is now in full swing, not to mention we&#8217;re at the first of two &#8220;hell months&#8221; for IB sensiors, Internal Assessment February. In this one month we&#8217;ll be writing be writing the TOK paper, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=quadcopter.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8484100&amp;post=242&amp;subd=quadcopter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Weed whacking</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 02:09:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This weekend, I went through and re-evaluated the Kalman filters at flight velocity. As I suspected last weekend, the accelerometer noise became even greater, and was introducing noise into the filters output. I collected new samples with the copter actually airborne though safely tied down to our testing board, and tweaked the Kalman filters yet [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=quadcopter.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8484100&amp;post=235&amp;subd=quadcopter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Didn&#8217;t make it..</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 03:22:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, this weekend unfortunately fell short in many ways, not the least of which is my failure to write a blog post for every day, because, simply put it, not a lot happened. We actually had a lot more school work and other schedule conflicts than anticipated, and could only work for a few hours [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=quadcopter.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8484100&amp;post=233&amp;subd=quadcopter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Closing the gap</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:32:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re getting close, and I&#8217;m (Its Matt by the way!) way overdue for a blog post. We had winter break at the end of december, and as seen in the previous vid the copter is now assembled and flight ready. All that really remains is the control software. On that front, I&#8217;ve made good progress. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=quadcopter.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8484100&amp;post=221&amp;subd=quadcopter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Quadcopter Test 3 Liftoff</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 03:40:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Rolke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[quadcopter liftoff test 3, originally uploaded by wimbot32259. As Matt&#8217;s post will explain to you in a much more in-depth fashion, our quad finally got air today. And we couldn&#8217;t be more happy. As badly as it scared the crap out of me to see this monster take to the skies on its foot long [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=quadcopter.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8484100&amp;post=213&amp;subd=quadcopter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Close is only good for Horshoes and Handgrenades,&#8221; and very good if you barely miss catastrophy.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 04:39:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Rolke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I say I’m very lucky to be typing this, I mean that I was less than a millimeter away from not having fingers anymore. Last post I mentioned my near miss from flipping the polarity on the battery connector and blowing out everything on the board… a millimeter, the thickness between the plastic end [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=quadcopter.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8484100&amp;post=214&amp;subd=quadcopter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Fancy with all those wires...</media:title>
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		<title>Quadcopter Test 2 Grounded</title>
		<link>http://quadcopter.wordpress.com/2009/12/14/quadcopter-test-2-grounded/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 04:40:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Will Rolke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[quadcopter grounded test 2, originally uploaded by wimbot32259. This is the second test we&#8217;ve conducted with the Quad powered up. This time, we used the battery (good news is it didn&#8217;t explode). We, again, grounded it by tying it to a foam board with zip ties so the prop-wash only created lift off the board [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=quadcopter.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8484100&amp;post=208&amp;subd=quadcopter&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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