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Distractions unto to bigger things (quadcopter)

It's been awhile since I've actually touched my project. More responsibilities at work and now enrolled in a business school makes finding time for 'real' work quite difficult. And by the way, I've been learning Android development for school (business school) so I might come up with an application for this project in the near future. But nevertheless, I've had many chances to ponder on how I can speed up the development of this autopilot. It's been quite clear that flying a 2m glider is restricted to large fields which you have to drive to only when the weather is right. For prototype development, a slow turnaround for testing is your number one enemy. Trying to fly at work is also counter-productive because then time is taken off something work is not paying for. So the decision made to change the platform upon which the autopilot is been tested. We went from 2m glider, 60cm glider and now we're going quadcopter. You may think what!!!!! You can'