[chbot] quite unreasonable !

Mark Beckett m.beckett at amuri.net
Thu Sep 29 21:12:51 BST 2011


Chris
I seem to recall a great deal of stuff on the Arduino forum, but it may 
have been the old one.

Hadley has a board that I think the guys developed 
https://nicegear.co.nz/clearance/27/


It links to here http://store.diydrones.com/


Cheers
Mark

Chris Hellyar wrote:
> Is there not a complete open source quad copter control board out there 
> somewhere?
>
> I looked into it a while ago and I thought there was something out there...
>
> So many projects, so little time. :-)
>
>
> On 29/09/11 23:59, Synco Reynders wrote:
>   
>> Hey Chris,
>>    Last week I also developed this need for a quadracoper so I slapped
>> 4 motors, 4 motor-controllers, big LiPo battery and 2 forward / 2
>> reverse propellers (else you have torque issues) together. Got all the
>> mixing done in my new ER-9X transmitter which works nicely.... BUT
>> I've concluded it's impossible to fly manually. You are welcome to
>> come round and try :-)
>> Believe you need to have motor controllers which are 'speed'
>> controlled, (as opposed to PWM / torque control). Also wondering if
>> you need gyros or whether you can fully stabilise it with a 3-axis
>> accelerometer only?
>> I've already reprogrammed a off-the-shelf brushless dc
>> motor-controller (need to iron out some glitches), got a auto-pilot
>> board with gyros and accelerometers etc... so only need some time to
>> write software. Let me know if you are keen to help.
>> /synco
>>
>>
>>
>> On 29 September 2011 23:22, Chris Hellyar<chris at trash.co.nz>  wrote:
>>     
>>> I've suddenly developed a need for a quadracopter... Can't figure why
>>> though?
>>>
>>> On 29/09/11 18:20, Mark Atherton wrote:
>>>       
>>>> <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CR5y8qZf0Y>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CR5y8qZf0Y
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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