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ASK HN: How to program a quadrotor?

Hello HN!

I am here to pick your brains and ask if any of you has experience programming a quad rotor. We(a team of undergraduate students) want to make our own autopilot and we would like people to tell us how to get off the ground. The resources on the internet are not in one place(or even two) and it would save us a lot of time if someone could pinpoint us to some sites to read.

Thanks a lot!

( 7 comments | 5 points | on HN )
Re:ASK HN: How to program a quadrotor? by notwedtm on Monday October 14, 2013 @08:28PM (#6550595)
Checkout the ArduPilot source code: http://github.com/diydrones/ardupilot
Re:ASK HN: How to program a quadrotor? by cju on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @02:37AM (#6551829)
Re:ASK HN: How to program a quadrotor? by sixothree on Monday October 14, 2013 @08:39PM (#6550653)
Re:ASK HN: How to program a quadrotor? by alan_cx on Monday October 14, 2013 @08:27PM (#6550594)
https://code.google.com/p/simple-flight-controller/

Any use?

The build log link could also be useful

Re:ASK HN: How to program a quadrotor? by Dimitris on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @04:25PM (#6556064)
thanks! will definitely take a look at it
Re:ASK HN: How to program a quadrotor? by tga on Thursday October 17, 2013 @08:40AM (#6564946)
If you don't already know about it, take a look at what the NodeCopter guys are doing.

http://nodecopter.com

Re:ASK HN: How to program a quadrotor? by sixothree on Monday October 14, 2013 @08:41PM (#6550663)