The AeroQuad

I know this is not strictly a UAV but because this is centre of the universe for things Arduino flight related and there have been some very cool posts about Quads lately (it is also one of my passions), I thought I would post about an Open Source Arduino based Quad platform in case people are not aware of it.

I have heard of the project in the past but never really spent any decent time looking at it until today, it certainly looks very good and appears to fly very well. The website is http://aeroquad.info and it uses either the Arduino Duemilanove w/ Atmega 328 or the Arduino Mega.

One of the other reasons for posting this is I wonder how easy it would be to get the code to run on the upcoming ArduPilot Mega and utilising the ArduIMU?

The parts list, source code and loads of good information are on the site. Looks to be a very well run project.

UPDATE: Sorry, this has been posted before, however, I am very interested in the question of running this code on the upcoming ArduPilot Mega and using the ArduIMU as sensor inputs.

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Chris Anderson March 9, 2010 at 10:31pm

Thanks for that link to the list of other Arduino-based quads. I had no idea there were so many! It's just a matter of time before someone offers a custom Arduino board for this. Shields on standard Arduino devboards are a good start, but not optimal.
David Ankers March 9, 2010 at 10:16pm

As I said updated in the post, this has been posted before, however, the following page might be very useful:

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1066119

It lists all the Arduino based Quads (they are breeding) that are around. I had no idea there were this many, they have a very nice community as well.

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