Hi all, I've been wanting to assemble a small coaxial copter controlled by Arduino. My goal would be to build a really cheap surveillance drone.
BUT, I have a number of questions:
- would the top balancing bar be needed in a computer-controlled copter?
- I see that toy helicopters use motors that don't seem to require ESC, as they provide only two line in. Is this a correct observation? How are they called? How could I control them with an Arduino?
- for this project I'd like to use only three motors to keep things as simple and cheap as possible. For this I'd like to use a frame/unit disposition similar to the one used by SymaS107. Do you have any frame in mind that would be fit to hold a picoduino (or something like that) + a couple of other circuits (gyro/magnetometer and GPS mainly)? Same thing for motors/batteries.
Even answering to some of this questions would be great.
Many thanks!
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I'm pretty sure that Jack Crossfire has done a blog post where he controls the all-in-one ESCs that are onboard those tiny copters.
If you (or anyone else) is successful in interfacing with those ESCs, I'd be interested in trying to incorporate that code into the official arducopter project..