Lord Of The Flies Informative Speech

Ever since I was a kid, I always was looking up at the sky. Everything that flew fascinated me, from large scale airlines down to smaller single engine trainer planes, I loved them all. My parents decided one year for Christmas to buy me a large remote control plane. It was bright canary yellow with a wingspan at least 45in. It had a standard V-tail configuration to fit the 3 channel radio with a linear throttle that went up at a 45-degree angle – clearly not the best trainer aircraft. The first time I took it out for a test flight I flew it directly into a tree due to the plane not having a rudder. During this accident the large wing looked as if it had a shark bite in it where it hit the tree – I was destroyed.

I then put the aircraft

On my front page that morning there was a TED talk. It was not a normal cookie cutter TED talk where the speaker goes up and talks about how reading a book a day helped him buy a half a million dollar car or how to learn more efficiently – but the stage had been replaced with a closed cage filled with netting. Inside the stage stood a middle-aged man holding two sticks with a pointer and a ball on them. With him in the cage were 2-3 quadcopters each of which the man was able to control with the sticks. The quads were able to balance poles and glasses of water along with doing flips and rolls. After viewing this video, I dug deeper into the world of quadcopters and stumbled along a video from a group named “Team Black Sheep”. I was greeted with GoPro footage of the shadow of a man launching a quadcopter into a large green field which lead into a medium sized lake. I was amazed on how far and smooth this machine could

The only non-taped object was a China Post bar code shipped out of Shenzhen. I grabbed my knife and slowly cut into the dense foam. There it was – 4 motors, 4-speed controllers, 2 black and 2 red props, a frame kit and a small blackboard. The small blackboard was the flight controller- the “brain” of the copter. Unfortunately this “brain” was part of the final batch of this particular flight controller – all of which were broken from the factory.

Everything was in place – months of research on top of countless hours of soldering, bolting and screwing had come down to this one moment. I slowly powered up the motors spinning the props so fast that they became a blur. The copter slowly lifted inches off the ground the right side lifting quicker than the left. This issue caused the copter to flip over to the left and not get off the ground. I then proceeded to replace and learn about almost every part on the quad - except for the one that was causing the issue which was the flight controller. After a few more hours of research, I settled on the KK2.1.5 board. I was attracted to this because it had a very handy LCD screen on the front which allowed for easy tuning and debugging. A week later I had it in my