What it does
LowCust acts as a normal drone but is main selling point is its low cost and its expendability
How we built it
We built our model out of foam board to make it lightweight and by repurposing old Raspberry Pi's and cameras. We also used the open source openCV library to add a machine learning object detection system into our drone
Challenges we ran into
A lot of the firmware we wanted to integrate into our project was available for Linux only so we needed to find ways to circumvent the software walls
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Calculating the optimal wingspan and constructing a full model of our drone
What we learned
there are many walls when trying to work with physical objects that need to be properly considered
What's next for LowCust
if given more time and potentially a budget LowCust could potentially become a product on the market.
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