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Dickson College UAV

Locality: Canberra, Australian Capital Territory

Address: Dickson, ACT 2602 Canberra, ACT, Australia

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25.01.2022 For anyone seeking to fly their own drone, this will help make things easy.

25.01.2022 It was cold and windy today, but our intrepid pilots were up for the challenge. After last weeks crashes and rebuild we were hoping for a good day of uneventful flying. Jack Hubbard, our main pilot, had two excellent 25 minute flights where he practiced takeoffs, landings and a series of complicated turns needed for his bronze wings certification. Despite the winds, he did very well. We also connected a new camera up to the plane check it's performance. After capturing 640 p...hotos at varying heights, we were very happy with it's performance. Noah Ingham is performing his magic to get the camera working even better. Here is a photo or two : https://www.flickr.com/phot/dburkey/sets/72157646532764170/ taken by our friend Darrel Burkey

24.01.2022 Hawt diggity here we have our next interviewee with Patrick! What is your name? Patrick... Why do you do UAV? Cos flying stuff is kool What is your role? Repairing the drones that everyone breaks Do you get air sickness? No How many times have you crashed? Lots of times Crashing things is quite common in UAV club so Patrick is super duper vital to our team. Stay tuned for next week's interview!!

24.01.2022 Some unedited footage of our fly session yesterday.

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18.01.2022 The dual propellor hugin returns ..... Tomorrow we will be flying the newly constructed Hugin. Our students have done a great job with rebuilding the plane very quickly and getting all of the subsystems installed. We hope to have a great week of system testing including Mars bar drops and search photo processing. In the plane, we have the radio control, global shutter camera, the UDOO Linux board and the PIXHAWK autopilot system. Let's hope it flies well tomorrow.

17.01.2022 New upload of Saxon's 3-D animation of the Hugin in flight. Now has scale model of the drop-zone for Outback Joe.

15.01.2022 Okey dokey pinky ponky we are proud to announce our first interviewee for the Dickson College UAV Club, Jordan! G'day, what is your name? Jordan... Why do you do UAV? Well I always wanted to make a drone that looks like a bird and shoots rockets from its beak. And has sparkles all over it What is your role? Isn't it something to do with running fixed wings? I think it's piloting I thought it was velcro manager..? Nope that's what I want to be; that would be my dream job Do you get air sickness? Only when my little brother falls asleep and drools on me How many times have you crashed? I haven't crashed yet You might have to try a little harder next time I reckon. Thank-you Jordan and stay tuned for our next member bio!!!

12.01.2022 Feedback is welcome, still in development phase.

12.01.2022 Disaster Strikes .... Over the weekend, we had our maiden flight of Hugin 2. We have modified this plane to have two motors instead of one. Here is a video of the first flight ....... and crash of the hugin. We are not too sure what happened. But after reviewing the footage, it does take off very well and is quite stable. Then something happens with the tail section that makes it uncontrollable. We are rebuilding it now!

11.01.2022 Hey guys, The new rules have been released and we ordered the parts that we need for the design of the quad-copter. The parts are going to get here in 2 - 4 weeks and the students are going to start building the quad copter. In the mean time,students have been researching and learning how to build the quad-copter, so we can start building immediately when all the parts get here.... Also, students are currently working on the software and drop mechanism of the vehicle. The project management team hosts meetings every week. During the meetings every group addresses what they have been up to and what difficulties they are facing, and as a team with the help of our engineering teacher we are trying to figure out the best way possible to solve the problems that we are facing in the most effective and efficient way.

11.01.2022 Hawt diggity here we have our next Dickson College UAV interviewee, Nick! What is your name? Nick... Why do you do UAV? It's fun and a creative initiative to develop and test technologies we can use to save lives What is your role? The head programmer - code fixing and doing smart stuff on the quadcopter to make sure it doesn't crash Do you get air sickness? No I don't and I'm glad How many times have you crashed? Over 50 times but they're mostly still alive Wowee what would we do without you Nick. Look out for our next interview!

10.01.2022 The U.A.V Program is back and better than ever! Be sure to look out for an all new look and updates!

09.01.2022 We forget to mention that earlier this year we decided we would not be participating in the UAV Outback Challenge this year. As the majority of us are rookies we preferred to gain some experience and do all sorts of wacky stuff. Good luck to all teams this year, and we can't wait to see your designs and delivery systems. ~Nick

09.01.2022 The technical report - deliverable 1 is coming together. Have a look at it and let us know what you think. We are still missing progress reports from the pilots and the drop mechanism team. The report is due on Wednesday this week. https://docs.google.com//0B7EsxQITi41sQ0N4eTVLMXE2bGM/edit

08.01.2022 Hello, As I assume you are aware, the UAV team has a large amount of work to complete, before we can go to the Outback challenge. In the last weeks, we have thrown around the idea of some dedicated UAV time to finish the project. If you interested in helping us out, the details are below: Time? 12-4 pm ... Where? Dickson College When? Thursday, Week 9 (25/6/2015, Tomorrow!) and Thursday Week 10 (2/7/2015) If you are unable to get into the Engineering Lab, please wait outside the front of the school. If you are planning on coming, some sort of RSVP would be appreciated. Apologies for the late notice... If you have any problems message us on Facebook. Thank you

08.01.2022 Hey there guys, we are currently waiting for the new rules according to the UAV outback challenge. In the mean time we are working on the software and areas that will not get significantly affected by the new rules. Also, we created a Google Drive folder which students will be able to view previous work for a variety of areas of the plane, such as software, building and designing. We did that because we believe starting from scratch is time consuming and not that efficient, having older student's work though can help a new student adapt his new ideas to the old one and improve it. If you are currently a student participating in the UAV club or an old student that can provide us with information for building the older planes contact @Debbie Kontaxis either on facebook or at [email protected] .

07.01.2022 All sixteen of us have made it to Queensland. A little hiccup in the rental of the cars and van has been saved by our intrepid helper Jack. We plan to get to the motel and then to the airfield to set up the plane and get the systems working. Ryan, Ben and Orlando are having a competition to see how long they can wear their "Canberra" hoodies in the Queenland heat. I would suspect not too long!

07.01.2022 This project is open for every student not only engineering students! We have different fields that students can work on, such as Management, Business, Media, and even the Arts! There is still time to join the team. If you have any questions join us in A15 on a Wednesday from 3-4 and we will help you out. :)

07.01.2022 Andrew and Debbie will be on 3RRR radio for the show Einstein A Go Go at 11:15 am tomorrow. Have a listen if you can.

07.01.2022 Last year the team went to the Outback Challenge and used a simple, but useful quad copter design. The drop video can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcVWiUSfmTs

06.01.2022 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JSL4AZh0Nc The various updating and testing the our Mars Bars Drop mechanism (Video). Also featuring (Picture), is our most recent model, which is much lighter and has the ability to control the Co2 with valves and an Auduino computer.

05.01.2022 Welcome year 11 and year 12 students!!! Some info for the year 11 students: This year we are entering the UAV Outback Challenge competition. The main goal of the challenge is to build and fly an Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle (UAV). The Dickson College UAV Outback Challenge team will be travelling up to Queensland to compete. Students will be designing, building,testing and flying an airplane that is capable of locating a lost tourist in the Outback and deliver a life saving pac...kage "Mars bar", to him. We will be competing against schools from around Australia. Year 12 students: We have experience from last years team and more planes to get our game on and do great this year. Get ready for another great year for Dickson College's UAV team!

05.01.2022 On July 25th, there was an event to announce the partnership between the Dickson College Unmanned Arial Vehicle (U.A.V) team and world leading aircraft manufacturer Northrop Grumman. At the event, Northrop Grumman presented the team with a $10,000 cheque to further develop the U.A.V. program at Dickson College. The event was attended by senior federal and local ministers, a number of executives from Northrop Grumman, and staff and students of Dickson College Andrew Moss, t...eacher of the U.A.V. program at Dickson College, says "These kinds of partnerships between industry and schools really improve student learning outcomes. It is fantastic that students can get real world experience from such an industry leader in autonomous systems technology". Dickson College competes in the internationally renowned U.A.V. Outback Challenge in Queensland every year. See more

05.01.2022 Ideas for ejecting the EpiPen Drop a bajillion EpiPens so that at least a couple land in the right area Release the EpiPen with an umbrella attached to float down like Mary Poppins... Parachute Sneak a face onto the target so facial recognition camera can detect and release EpiPen Kamikaze bomb with the EpiPen attached to the front so that it stabs the person easily Cast your votes or any new ideas!

04.01.2022 Dickson College UAV will be on the radio tomorrow. Listen to 3RRR in Melbourne (or over the internet) at 11:15am on Sunday for an interview with our team business manager Debbie Kontaxis and teacher Andrew Moss.

04.01.2022 Edited by Saxon Hutchinson And Daniel Jackson; the deliverable video for the UAV Outback Challenge shows various areas of work, that the team for Dickson College has been involved in. Includes the UAV takeoff and landing, Drop mechanism, plane construction, design plan and 3D modelling.

04.01.2022 Dickson College UAV being assessed.

02.01.2022 Hello, Just a quick reminder for the UAV meeting tomorrow. If you are interested in helping us out, the details are below. Time? 12-4 pm ... Where? Dickson College When? Thursday Week 10 (2/7/2015) If you are unable to get into the Engineering Lab, please wait outside the front of the school. If you are planning on coming, some sort of RSVP would be appreciated. -- Debbie Kontaxis and Oliver Mill

02.01.2022 What's that sound????? A low frequency boom rattles the windows on the first floor of the A-Block at Dickson College. Looks like the UAV team is testing that new airborne Mars bar delivery method - a new air canon - very cool! Videos and sonic booms to follow.

02.01.2022 Welcome to the last week of term!!!!! The Dickson College UAV Outback Challenge team is travelling up to Queensland this week to compete in the UAV Outback Challenge. Students have been designing, building,testing and flying an airplane that is capable of locating a lost tourist in the Outback and deliver a life saving package, this year a Mars bar, to him. We will be competing against schools from around Australia. The students have done a great job developing the plane this... year. The airplane is the most ambitious and technically complex one built to date. They have come up with a great system that is a combination of autopilots, single board computers, air canons (to launch Mars bar), student written software, recharging systems, solenoids, servo motors and lots of flashing lights. This is all loaded into the cramped quarters of a model plane. Check out the photos of the plane. It looks even cooler now with Dickson College Stickers on the wings. It has been a difficult journey to get to this point. The plane and the systems have taken a long time to build. The really windy and rainy weather over the last 3 weeks has really hampered our system checkout and testing. We had a crash last week that required a massive effort to fully rebuild the plane in a very short period of time. But all of these things happen in the real world as well (ask Boeing or Northrop Grumman) and it adds to the students learning. The plane is complete and ready to fly! It will be an great week. Lots of excitement, drama and fun! If you would like to follow the progress through the week, we will be keeping the UAV web site and this page up to date. It can be found at : https://sites.google.com/site/dicksoncollegeuavteam/ The official competition website can be found at www.uavoutbackchallenge.com.au . Like and post some comments. The kids will get a kick out it!

01.01.2022 The range test for Dixon College is good!