If you want a quick start, download the APM or ACM software from this site and load it with ArduinoIDE http://arduino.cc/en/Main/Software and start looking through the code. I have little/no experience coding so much of it was confusing to me, but it is very well commented, and I could decipher quite a bit of it.
Is it possible in a year? Yes, I suppose anything is if you try hard enough, though it is hard for me to say as I haven't made it to that level of competency myself. Mechanically/aerodynamically they are fairly simple designs, but the physics/code required to make the "simple" aircraft fly and be stable is a little more complicated(at least to me).
PS. Sorry about the "swivel" comment, I must try to remember that not everyone on the internet has English as their native language.
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Is it possible in a year? Yes, I suppose anything is if you try hard enough, though it is hard for me to say as I haven't made it to that level of competency myself. Mechanically/aerodynamically they are fairly simple designs, but the physics/code required to make the "simple" aircraft fly and be stable is a little more complicated(at least to me).
PS. Sorry about the "swivel" comment, I must try to remember that not everyone on the internet has English as their native language.
so are you guys done with it?
Hi,
Thanks for the quick response! Would you care to elaborate on that? I really don't understand the dynamics of what you're saying