A new concept I’m starting to learn in my Coursera course on React Basics (view post series here) is React “States.” States in React is an interesting way of storing the “state” or current information about a variable or function. ⓘ As a new topic, I’m still learning how React works. For an actual professional,…
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Meta Front-End Developer Course | 2 Months in
What made this assignment different from the other courses was the peer-reviewed grading. This is where I had some issues with Coursera. The downside is that they only support uploading HTML and CSS files, for the final project, making it challenging to review my peers’ websites
Circumventing Safety Features
I recently encountered an interesting problem when configuring all three drones simultaneously with the Skybrush drone management software. I would power up all three drones and connect them to the network I configured for them. All three would appear on my laptop. After double-checking that they were actively connected, I manually rebooted each one and…
NeoPixel With ArduCopter
I got the NeoPixel LEDs working with Arducopter and natively updating with the Drone’s current status: The hardware setup for powering the lights was as easy as soldering my UBec to the output voltage pads to take power directly from the battery input. The wiring for controlling the LEDs was also fairly straightforward. I utilized…
Drone Light Show (Part 3) – Build Goes Sideways
Unfortunately for me, the takeoff did not exactly go “up” but rather sideways. When pushing the throttle stick, the drone would start to lean backward and or start rotating when meant to fly straight up…
Drone Light Show (Part 2) – Hardware
the build consists of mostly HolyBro components, while not being cheap they offered a reliable and well-documented parts compared to the competitors or parts I would have gotten cheaper off AliExpress.
Meta Front-End Developer Course – Week ONE
At the beginning of July, I started a course on front-end web development taught by the Meta (Facebook) team on Coursera. It goes through 9 mini-courses in which it teaches you, from the introduction to how things on the Internet work to preparing for a coding interview over six months. I so far have completed…
Drone Light Show (Part 1) – Research
I’ve been recently looking into building custom drones for a light show. A drone light show is a fleet of drones with lights that fly synchronously to display an image or animation in the sky. Each drone has a GPS tracking device to ensure proper distance and movement. One central base station on the ground…
Enhancing Impact with Screenshots and Animations
inserting screenshots to get your point across effectively is hard. And after I’ve played around with a few different methods in attempts to improve that, I think I’ve significantly improved it…
3D Printing an RC Plane
I spent about three weeks working on 3D printing an RC plane. I had initially searched for a somewhat easy RC plane to print and assemble as I’ve never had any experience with RC vehicles in general. I eventually found a good model that was both free and looked simple enough for me to be…