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Project - RC Helicopter Stabilization with Arduino

Posted by Christoph Prantl on April 1, 2008 at 6:30am

This is my current Project-Plan:Stabilize nick and roll of my Walkera Dragonfly DF36 with Arduino and provide an easy interface to the RC servo output.(read acceleration data from a Wii Nunchuck and pulse servos to keep horizontal position)First steps:- Hardware setup- Create a starting sketch and develop it based on libraries and functions.Thanks to everybody who is developing nice stuff for Arduino (it helps me a lot when I get stuck)This is my Blog where I post all my findings:http://www.vodkadoctors.at/captFuture/blog/
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  • Developer
    Jordi Muñoz April 18, 2008 at 4:13am
    No way to use only accelerometers in you helicopter..
  • Christoph Prantl April 16, 2008 at 1:04am
    just search for Walkera 36 on eBay (there are pretty nice offers)
    example: http://cgi.ebay.com/R-C-RTF-6CH-Walkera-36-3D-Brushless-Lipo-Helico...

    ... the heli has a Transmitter in the package

    My Arduino is this one:
    http://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoardDiecimila (you find resellers on this website too)

    Yes you only need the nunchuck hardware

    ->>>> THIS IS IMPORTANT
    Learn to fly the helicopter by hand and learn it good because otherwise it will crash for sure :-)
  • Constantinescu April 15, 2008 at 11:42pm
    Hello Christoph,
    After a first reading of your documents results that I must buy:
    a) Walkera Dragonfly DF36 with CCPM mechanical mixing, brushless motor (which type Please?), LiPo battery (which type Please?)and CFK rotor-blades (is it necessary a type specification?);
    b) The transmitter adapted to this heli (have you any opinion?);
    c) Arduino complet set(hardware, software, manual);
    d) Wii Nunchuck (hardware only?);
    Please give me details on the electrical connections and preliminary test procedures. Many thanks, Georges
  • Christoph Prantl April 13, 2008 at 11:50pm
    Hello Georges,
    If you go to the Link http://www.vodkadoctors.at/captFuture/blog/ you can see all my findings and samples.
    Cheers Chris
  • Constantinescu April 13, 2008 at 9:23am
    Hello, I am new in this field. Please help me to reproduce all your project. For me it seams fascinating. Many Thanks, Georges
  • 3D Robotics
    Chris Anderson April 1, 2008 at 10:52am
    Much better! Thanks very much--now I can see that's an even cooler project than I thought...
  • Christoph Prantl April 1, 2008 at 7:52am
    i will edit it urgently :-)
  • 3D Robotics
    Chris Anderson April 1, 2008 at 7:19am
    Nice project (it's an Arduino heli stabalizer), but would have been a more useful blog post if you had included a picture and description, and a more helpful title. As a matter of policy we treat posts that are just a link as spam and delete them, but I'll make an exception this time.
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