Week 1 Tent Exploration

This is a full scale, professional level, drone racing tent. The goal behind this tent set up is following the race course start to finish. The stipulation is all the drones have to get through the red arches, and stay in-between the blue lines on the ground. By going outside of either of those lines, red and blue, a time penalty or entire disqualification can occur. Times are taken at the end to find out who completed the course the quickest, awarding the fastest drone as the winner.

This is our planned tent. The main objective of our tent is to fly through different sized, and shaped, objects inside of the tent. They will be given a short time limit, somewhere around one minute, to fly through as many different holes as possible. Each hole will be given a different point value, increasing value with difficulty to get through. At the end of one minute, all of the players points will be tallied up for a final score.

This is our scaled down build of the tent. For the final product, we are planning on using large PVC piping, with connectors, to build the load baring supports. Then to create the enclosure, we are planning on hanging down a single piece of see through netting over all the walls and and roof.  This allows for quick construction and de-construction. If there are no pieces of netting that large, or ones for a reasonable price, we will change the plan. Then we plan on having smaller PVC piping sticking out of the load baring supports to create obstacles for the drone to fly through. The holes will be different shapes and sizes, allowing for different amounts of points being earned from completing the task. The amount of points awarded by the obstacle will be represented by the colour of the shape. At the end of the players turn, all of their points will be added up to create a total score.

Fundraiser Planning: For the fundraising aspect of this project, we were thinking that we could use this enclosure as a kind of challenge that other students would be able to try to complete. To compete the students would have to pay either $1 or $2. Our enclosure will contain a series of rings of varied sizes and each one will hold a certain amount of points. The student will have to fly through as many rings as they can in a minute time frame and score as many points as they can. We were also thinking that we could put each student who completes in a second event, costing slightly more money, into a challenge pool and after the end of the day the highest score will win a small prize. This person will then be contacted, most likely through school email, about their winnings.