AvrMiniCopter - Linux based controller project - Discussions

Hello Everyone,

I want to share a project I have been working on for the last year. It is a quadcopter controller with full Linux support (maintained using buildroot)

This means:

full networking support (Wifi, Bluetooth)
use scripting or any programming language you want
SSH, Busybox, and hundreds of other tools
compile your own additional tools
video4linux/camera (when using capable board - i.e. Odroid-W or RPi)
anything else Linux supports

The controller's features currently are:

Support for quadcopters in X configuration of any size
2 fly modes - Auto-level & Acro
Altitude hold
learner mode (attach 2 controller simultaneously - one for the teacher and one for the learner)
fast (boot time of around 2-3sec)
WWW configurable (i.e. you can adjust anything using your phone in the field)
Camera support for taking pictures and videos
Live and Offline log charting (vibrations, quaternions, altitude, etc)
Out of box bluetooth (PAN) and WIFI connectivity for receiving flight logs, accessing the file system (NFS and SSH), browsing videos and pictures
Endlessly and easily extensible

The setup is relatively simple and includes 2 boards - AVR board (like Arduino Pro Mini) and SPI capable SBC (like Odroid W or RPi) wired together using SPI.

With the software provided the setup is of plug-and-play and you can control your quadcopter using PS3 controller or via network.

See the wiki for more information.

Sources: https://github.com/rpicopter/AvrMiniCopter
Wiki: https://github.com/rpicopter/AvrMiniCopter/wiki
Precompiled images: https://github.com/rpicopter/AvrMiniCopter-images

If you passionate about linux and quadcopters than this is something you should try! :)

Let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks,
Gregory

Replies

QuadrotorThai Tevada June 27, 2015 at 3:53am

I want to know. How altitude hold work?
- Gregory D > QuadrotorThai Tevada July 15, 2015 at 2:00am
  
  Hi, what exactly are you trying to find out - how to activate altitude hold or what are the implementation details?
  
  There is a new version available. You will need to configure the hover throttle before using altitude hold.
  - QuadrotorThai Tevada > Gregory D July 17, 2015 at 9:32am
    
    I want to know implementation details of altitude hold mode. I want appy to use for my firmware.
QuadrotorThai Tevada April 17, 2015 at 2:32am

Hello.
Yes I want to modify the code.
I want to know what Rapbian version you use to boot very quickry and small size.
- Gregory D > QuadrotorThai Tevada April 28, 2015 at 7:48am
  
  Hi,
  
  This is not Raspbian what we are using. It is a custom build linux distribution.
  
  I will do a writeup of how to compile it if I get some time but the basic steps are in here:
  
  https://github.com/rpicopter/buildroot
  
  rpicopter/buildroot
  
  Set of scripts needed to build AvrMiniCopter images - rpicopter/buildroot
  - QuadrotorThai Tevada > Gregory D April 28, 2015 at 9:37am
    
    Thank you very much Gregory D for writeup of how to compile it.
    - Gregory D > QuadrotorThai Tevada May 13, 2015 at 4:32am
      
      Hi, How is it going, is it already flying?
      - QuadrotorThai Tevada > Gregory D May 13, 2015 at 9:03am
        
        Not yet. I can't to compile your code.
        
        Gregory D > QuadrotorThai Tevada May 17, 2015 at 4:03am
        
        I've updated the installation scripts and readme.
        
        Compile instructions you will find in the README:
        
        https://github.com/rpicopter/buildroot
        
        rpicopter/buildroot
        
        Set of scripts needed to build AvrMiniCopter images - rpicopter/buildroot
        
        QuadrotorThai Tevada > Gregory D May 17, 2015 at 4:18am
        
        Thank you.

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