Quote: "I have a friend who just finished a quadcopter and I'm looking into building one myself I helped him tune the PID and oh my I can't believe the results! I've got to top it"
Awesome! They're SUPER fun to build, but let me give you a
really important warning: DON'T, under ANY circumstances, decide to program the flight controller yourself! You would not BELIEVE the struggles I've had getting my Arduino to behave. And not because the Arduino has anything wrong with it, just because there's a huge lack of important information on the subjects surrounding controlling a quadcopter with an Arduino... things like the fact that the SoftwareSerial library won't play nice with the SoftwareServo library without enormous effort.
Meh. It'll be super cool when it's finished, but I'm totally not sure going the DIY flight-controller and digital serial control route will have been worth it. I've been working non-stop for literally days on this and it's
still not ready to fly. I mean, I've been making progress, slowly, but I have other things I need to do. I can't spend all my time on this one project.
If I can sort out a safe solution to the
common ground issue I'm having at the moment, and
if I can make the serial and servo libraries cooperate, and
if my algorithms for maintaining balance and accepting controller input actually work,
maybe it will get off the ground tomorrow... but even then, it'll be tethered.
Quote: "Thanks Mr. Moderator, it was late and I didn't think about the thumbnail appearing like that."
No problem
