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-How did you guys finance your projects? How did you find benefactors?
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We contacted several different companies by getting their university relations contact and sending them information about who we are and what we're trying to get involved in. We actually didn't get that much money (about a $1000 from Qualcomm) and we made ours out of aluminum so it didn't really break. We also kind of ran around got some help from the ECE Machine Shop. We also got additional funding for travel from our Engineering Council, which was awesome!!
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-What majors were your team members? I imagine most of you all were engineering majors? Any CS?
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We had 1 MechE, 3 CS and 4 ECE
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Those were the main two questions I had. Also, have you guys already started working on newer/better revisions? Do we have any idea what future competitions will be?
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Well, we got some advice on how to program our quadrocopter, and gave us a mini-lecture on control systems. Our problem was that we couldn't get it flying because of our PID tuning. So we're going to be trying that system out soon.
I think that future competitions will probably revolve around Aerial Vehicles nooooooo Idea what the game will be though.
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EDIT: Also, how many members did you guys have?
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10 people in all, 8 people that came to the competition.