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Originally Posted by rachelholladay
How cool! It was so exciting to see the pictures come back. I hope I can do something as awesome as Curiosity when I'm older..
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For my senior design project we're making a blimp for autonomously navigation and mapping a building for use in emergency situations where human lives are at stake.
I guess that's a starting point, right?
This years design team is moving from a quad rotor to the blimp. It was a weird idea pitched to me which I don't initially like, but then I started to think of the air drafts in a building with non-consistent ground, or even buildings with doorways [SARCASM] and good thing those don't exist very much [/SARCASM] which create weird air drafts that make to UAV unstable. Plus the 12 minute battery life is abmyssal.
The blimp gets rid of the air draft problems, and we have much longer battery life.
It'll be cool to see the end result I this project. I just hope the rest of the team is ready to work at the pace I'm accostomed to with FIRST.