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I have no idea about the load carrying capacity of the drone, but it would be an awfully cool project to add an ultrasound sensor(s) and write a program for flying it around randomly indoors without hitting walls. A fancy feature might be to solve a real-life maze by flying through it. Would such a thing be possible?
(I'm even piloting in this video)
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A micropython based flight control system would be a really cool project.
hmm, watching your copter crash during Pythons garbage-collection cycle might be an issue.... Python != realtime, flight-control == hard real-time
Further, my experience with Micropython so far has shown it to be pretty fluid. But I would be the first to tell you I haven't challenged it all that much.
Ok, this drives me nuts ARGH! Seriously? The STM32F103? Crazy (or should that be Craze) hobbyists using "blue pill" boards because they are cheap (and they are, like $3 on ebay) which use this bastard chip of the ST Cortex-M line and they say "gee, its a really simple circuit and since they sell for so cheap on ebay it should be a good idea to use this chip!" BZZZZZZT! ST Micro makes much better CPUs that would be id…
Yeah, the same kind of fake "we're Open Source" seems to happen with kickstarter projects fairly often too. eg DoBot. Grrr. One place which has done it correctly though is Dorna: https://www.dorna.ai They kickstarted (successfully, shipping to their backers etc), now have an online store, and all of the files (both software + hardware designs) are downloadable for everyone. :)
I have no idea about the load carrying capacity of the drone, but it would be an awfully cool project to add an ultrasound sensor(s) and write a program for flying it around randomly indoors without hitting walls. A fancy feature might be to solve a real-life maze by flying through it. Would such a thing be possible?
STM32 chips are used on a lot of quadcopter flight controllers, often using open source firmware like Betaflight https://github.com/betaflight/betaflight/wiki
PX4
Ardupilot
Cleanflight
iNav
etc
Each is oriented towards different types of audiences based on features and license.
I have no idea about the load carrying capacity of the drone, but it would be an awfully cool project to add an ultrasound sensor(s) and write a program for flying it around randomly indoors without hitting walls. A fancy feature might be to solve a real-life maze by flying through it. Would such a thing be possible?
Not ultrasound but at one point in my life I made this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig8IRTejn8A (I'm even piloting in this video)
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Yeah, the same kind of fake "we're Open Source" seems to happen with kickstarter projects fairly often too. eg DoBot. Grrr. One place which has done it correctly though is Dorna: https://www.dorna.ai They kickstarted (successfully, shipping to their backers etc), now have an online store, and all of the files (both software + hardware designs) are downloadable for everyone. :)
Damn, sometimes reading comments can be soo expensive :-)