Wednesday, 14 January 2015

Quadcopter body

Using cardboard and a glue gun I constructed the body of the Quad as a temporary measure to hold and operate the motors correctly. So far it has been good I'm hoping it will be light enough to get off the ground as well.

Quadcopter remote control



To remotely control the quadcopter I am going to use the pulsein function so the Arduino can read the output from a 2.4ghz receiver. Using the Serial.println function I will then bind the values I get from the receiver to speed and direction functions that will be sent to the motor controllers.

Here is the remote controller and receiver I am using