"The one in the video is my old one. It's just some aluminum bar in an x configuration with an arduino mega and a 10DOF off eBay. 4 motors 1050kv turnigy 2217's. The ESCs are 30amp cheapos from hobby king.
"1 more question. I was looking into making my own tx instead of using a pc joystick recently and had a hard time finding the gimbals. Where did you get your stick? I was going to break down and use the ps2 joysticks from sparkfun but decided they…"
"I'm actually about to switch my setup to use an APC230 as well. I've only got the 100 meter XBees and a couple WiFly's and I'm looking to get better range. $10 is way cheap for a nano, but the extracore is still like half the size. "
"Hey looks similar to my little project :) http://aimatt.com/2012/08/02/diy-rc-receiver-serial-ppm/
BTW, you might want to think about using an Extracore (you can find them on tindie.com) for less tahn $11 and they are much smaller than the nano."
"Yeah it is a really nice module. I guess you have to wait for the GPS to lock anyway ;)
The time it takes to set up the network is due to negotiating a private network IP, I think, e.g. 169.x.x.x and you may be able to shorten it by setting a…"