Adventure into the RC world, and Drones

OK so i finally am venturing into something i have always get my feet wet in, the the RC community, and what better way to get into RC stuff is the currently very popular quad-copter platforms.

Of course this is not going to be any regular quad-copter, since my love for tinkering with things influences about everything i purchase these days.

So decided to get the OFFICIAL 3DR Robotics ArduPilot 2.6 flight controller board, in a kit with the powerful Nema 6-H GPS module and wireless telemetry.

Some history on the 3DR flight controller is the most thought after Autonomous flight controller as it has won numerous awards and taken first places in competitions years in the row now. The main selling point for me was the Open Source Soft and Hardware. These guys defiantly made one kick a&& flight controller. I am getting a late start on writing about this as i have finally completed my build. So i guess a little spoil alert is that this Flight controller is unbelievable. I will go into more detail about this later.

So now that i have shared with what is going to be the brain of our drone, i was enlightened that not every one knows what a RC Multirotor craft might consist of. So since i love sharing my knowledge i think i will try to share as much of the little knowledge i have gained over the past two month tinkering with this new world of technology(to me).

OK so lets take it from the top, i am sure a lot of you have played with a remote control car at some point in your life. The concept is the same we have a Vehicle in my case i chose an aerial vehicle, and to top that a MultiRotor vehicle.

MultiRotor means that unlike a regular airplane we have multiple rotors providing thrust on multiple fixed wings. Rotor = Motor.

In the next post i will provide a Bill of Materials for this quad copter, although i have gone through multiple major revisions of my aircraft i will only provide the latest as hopefully my Blog will provide the knowledge base for you not to make the same mistakes as i made.

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