Hi everyone,
I put together a short list of many details that have gone into making a RPi quad. I have some pictures posted in my photo album. I'll get those updated soon as well as some video when I locate a firewire port for the DV camera.
I've started a group as well. I'm sure there are others out there flying or at least attempting to fly a Raspberry Pi =)
Quad-FU - Project Outline
X525 Frame Kit
20A ESCs
*Tossed the KK Multicopter Controller
Raspberry Pi 700MHz ARM
Debian Linux
-hostapd;
running as a WiFi Hot-Spot to easily connect all sorts of devices =)
-Quad-FU Master Controller;
our quadrotor controller software, currently written in C
Arduino Nano **Thank you Tom!
-Quad-FU SPI Slave Controller;
arduino code receiving motor throttles and generating the 1-2ms pulse to drive the ESCs
-Motor Throttle Data is sent from the RPi over SPI from the Quad-FU Master Controller software
-Used for two good reasons: 1) 5V was needed to drive the ESC 2) The little duino needed a good home
Wii Motion Plus && Wii Nunchuck
-Reading Gyro and Accelerometer data over I2C via RPi
-Processing data on the RPi with a modified Kalman filter we wrote in C
Un-Named Controller Input Software
-Written in C# and used to interpret the PS3 Controller
-Sends throttle, pitch, roll, yaw, and button data over UDP to the quad
PlayStation Controller
-Opened the controller and removed / modified the joystick assembly to prevent the stick from returning to center
-With a modified throttle it was the cheapest way to have a decent wireless controller to control our quad
COMING SOON
-Soon we will be receiving a bleeding edge IMU from a sponsor
-Laser 3D Modeling of surroundings
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