I attended this small workshop on UAVs and how to make drones (quadcopters) using Arduino and 3D printing, and we had to make our own little project related to the modern application of drones at the end of it to showcase our learning and I decided to make this Gimbal!
I honestly had a lot of fun making this, pestering my teachers with stuff I had trouble in (one time I got really stressed about my mpu6050 not registering as an I2C device and was on the verge of crying, but as it turned out it was just a minor connection problem in the jumper lol). The code and I2C protocol just went over my head most of the time, but after 5 sleepless nights, all this hard work finally came through and voila!
A Little Mess of Tapes and ThermocolI didn't have a 3D printer or anything fancy to work with at home considering the lockdown and everything, and like the engineer I am, I decided to make due with what little I could find lying around i.e. tape and some thermocol. Obviously, this won't even be able to withstand carrying a gram more than its own weight, but it does what it was meant to do as a prototype, and therefor I consider this project successful.
What is a Gimbal?Well, I probably should have lead with this and here is the link to a power point presentation I had to made explaining about my project. This will provide you a short insight on all the steps I followed.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1GBGnK6SM560d3nW68rbm8pkBwm7IWIl7Z_JNzfkqOXc/edit?usp=sharing
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