This week, the team was able to finish up most of the drone construction, along with getting their flight controller connected to the antennas we will use for communicating with the drone. There are still some missing components that were… Read More
Week 5: Drone Constructed
The team has finally completed the drone platform, with all critical components connected. This leads the team to prepare for their first test in the Malachowsky Drone lab. This is critical to staying on track with the project, since there… Read More
Week 4: Getting Somewhere!
The team has made significant progress on gathering data via the LiDAR component we will strap to our drone. The picture above shows a still image of a scan that was collected of Library West, and then mapped to software… Read More
Week 3: QRB1
This week, the team presented to the QRB board about the status of their project! They gained very good feedback about their progress, learned about some issues with their component purchases. Based on this, the team is reevaluating the need… Read More
Week 2: Prepping our Return
As the semester begins to ramp up it’s pace, the team is dedicating time to picking up where they left off in the design process. There is still lots of work to do, so the team has been spending more… Read More
Week 1: 2026!
Gatormatix is back and ready for the new year! We have returned from the holidays, and today marks the end of the first week of classes. The team has spent time this past week regrouping and redefining the action plan… Read More