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The quadcopter part 1 : genesis of the project
When I was a student in my engineering school, we decided to build a drone. The project was abandonned after about one year, more or less because members of the robotic team didn't succeed to stabilize...
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The quadcopter part 2 : specifications and first manufacturing
So, as you can see there, we had a beginning of stabilization at the end for our first prototype. Still, we were not able to correct the yaw axis, making the drone really hard if not impossible to...
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The quadcopter : control the orientation
We will use use these axes as reference Quadcopter principle The quadcopter orientation can be defined by three angles : Pitch, Roll, and Yaw. These angles determine orientation and therefore the...
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The quadcopter : the flight controller shield
For our new quadcopter frame(article coming soon ), we decided to create a completely new Arduino shield, using new sensors and trying to avoid having lots of wires floating around. We bought the 9 DOF...
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The quadcopter : first video !
Our quadcopter After having been through many, many hardware problems, the quadcopter is finally flying! We still have troubles with the ITG3200 on the stick IMU from Sparkfun which is causing some...
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The quadcopter : how to compute the pitch, roll and yaw
The stick IMU from sparkfun: ADXL345 accelerometer, ITG3200 gyroscope, HMC5883L compass. After having introduced here the basics of an aircraft orientation and how to control it, this article is about...
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The T-REX 450 filmed by our quadcopter
We tried for the first time to fly together and that was pretty cool, until Benoit crashed the T-REX... Never forget the idle-up when looping with a collective pitch heli For some copyright reasons,...
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The quadcopter goes to an abandoned factory
The Simons abandoned factory A new video made with our quadcopter! This time we went to an abandoned factory in Le Cateau, France and shot around 30 minutes of video in and around the factory. We will...
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The Ardupilot Mega 2.5 : why it's awesome.
After a good run, we decided it was time for our homemade quadcopter controller board to go. Actually, it had to. It started to wobble in the air pretty violently for no reason while flying. We made no...
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New videos/ photos. When a drone goes 250m high
Hi everyone! I created a new album on my flick'r account : Drones and stuff. I will try to update it frequently with pictures of everything we do Our quadcopter We also posted 3 new videos on Youtube:...
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