Hello Gentlemen,
My name is Dave Gage, I'm a senior studying mechanical engineering at UW Milwaukee. I was hoping that someone could help me out with a parts list.
A professor told me that he would be willing to spend $1000 to build an autonomous copter of some sort with collision avoidance, and he asked me to build it for him. He seems to be dead-set on the craft being a quadcopter, but I am open for suggestions. I plan on purchasing some sort of ArduPilot Kit including an array of sensors, and possibly another Arduino to monitor them. I also plan on building the frame.
What's the best copter (again, it doesn't have to be a quadcopter) you could build with $700 to be a platform for an array of sensors?
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You killed your budget with two words: collision avoidance
If you want to go collision avoidance.. you need a LOT of CPU speed.. best would be a quad core board to run your optics with... we are going far over your budget.. and testing.. will cost a bit too :) You don't know if the copter avoids the obstacle.. if you dont send it into it.. 1000 bugs are not enough..
Cheers
J