Summer Research Week 3 Homework

Prezi Notes

• Research and Planning
• Flight
• Stabilization
• Camera
• Ultrasonic sensors
• Communication Protocols
• Handling information
• First Attempt
• use landmarks as indicators when traveling
• Node.js
• helps communicate and receives images
• Second Attempt
• following a marker instead of navigating to it
• Third Attempt
• switch camera view to bottom in order to follow a set path
• more difficult rea
• Our Final Product
• uses to computer to analyze where it is supposed to go
• Future Research
• use more markers to help the drone
• work around the problem

Video Notes

• Important concepts, thenewboston 3
• making objects in node.js same as javascript
• typing in javascript = code that runs in browser
• unless wild loop
• usually completes 
• node.js runs on server and continuously 
• prints out return data in function
• any function without a specific return statement gives undefined
• can set variable equal to function
• function does not need name this way when variable
• node.js not necessary, anonymous function
• when a function is stored in a variable, you can use set functions
• useful to use it in other functions

• Handling requests, thenewboston 4
• speed and a lot of commands
• node.js fast and efficient
• setTimeout _____, 1,000 = 1 second then giving back order
• schedule code to happen at x seconds
• all of them are complete in this time
• other things can be completed when the setTimeout function is in operation

This week we looked at the code to see if there was anything familiar or something that we understood. We did not understand most of the code, but we were able to extract some information from them. We took notes on the code and we will be continuing to do this to see if we progressed throughout the summer. Adding on, we played around with node.js to see how it functioned. We shared info with each other and started to build on top of each other's ideas. I watched videos to understand node.js better because I did not feel comfortable with coding. Both of us also went through last year's presentation and we understood most of the slides.