Showing posts with label drone. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drone. Show all posts
2014-09-21

DIY drone - tutorial for developers | Part 10 - Preflight checkups and maiden flight !

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Before putting the props on, you have to calibrate the accelerometers. Find a quiet and flat place to put your quadcopter on. Fire up ez...

DIY drone - tutorial for developers | Part 9 - Calibrating your ESCs and fix the throttle

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Connect your ESCs to the FC. Again, be careful and connect the signal wires (white) on the inside. You should use 2, 3, 5, and 6. ...

DIY drone - tutorial for developers | Part 8 - Hooking up the FC

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Testing out the receiver (RX) with the flight controller (FC) Let's connect the RX to the FC and test it out like that. First uploa...

DIY drone - tutorial for developers | Part 7 - Motors + ESCs setup and test

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Charging up a battery It is a 3S which means 3 elements of 3.7 volts adding up to 11.1v. When you'll charge it up through the little ...

DIY drone - tutorial for developers | Part 6 - Mechanical assembly

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The frame itself is quite obvious to mount as its documentation is quite clear. But the motor assembly is not. Here is the end result. ...

DIY drone - tutorial for developers | Part 5 - Assembling the power components

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Here is an overview of what we gonna need to do: The convention is always the same to avoid shorting cable:  anything with live power...

DIY drone - tutorial for developers | Part 4 - Dev environment

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Development environment Ha, finally the easy part ;) Toolchain  The FC is programmed like an arduino so you'll need the arduino t...

DIY drone - tutorial for developers | Part 3 - Ordering the parts

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I used hobbyking.com but I am not affiliated with them in any way, you can take this as the baseline of stuff that work together The ord...