My friend and I want to build an unmanned aerial vehicle. Unlike the predator drones, it will not be armed with missiles.
This is an educational project for us; I’ve never done any proper “bare metal” coding before, or even very much hardware based stuff. Matt, however, is great at the hands on, practical side, but his coding is lacking.
Between us, we should have enough knowledge to fuck up in new and interesting ways.
I’m going to let Matt explain what kit we’ve got, what each bit of it is for, and how he’s fitting it together. I’m going to cover the coding side, and the maths, and how we’re going to get it to fly itself. Or Matt will probably cover that last part; he is doing an engineering degree. I’ll be taking the theory he gives me, and implementing it :).
To start with, we’ll be doing some “basic” stabilisation stuff. We’ll get the plane to try and stay as level as possible, automatically correcting itself except when recieving input from the remote.
Oh – and we don’t have a plane yet.
Update pending!