Topic:Previous experience
Answer:
No. Mate academy's QA engineer in MilTech course does not need your own drone or electronics experience: a separate module gives the foundation, and practice takes place in simulators and on real logs.
In the Mate academy course, the "Electronics hardware basics" module teaches electronics: voltage and current, components, reading circuit diagrams, printed circuit boards, soldering and power supply. It comes before the embedded and UAV modules, so students with no technical background keep up with the program. In place of your own drone, you do the practice in the SITL and Mission Planner simulators and on the logs of real flights. You need a computer with an Intel Core i5 processor or better, 8 GB of RAM (16 GB is better), an SSD and a stable internet connection. Windows or Linux both work. On macOS, some of the firmware tools work with limits.
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