Hardware Reference
In-Depth Information
The second and certainly the easier one of the two approaches is to choose ArduPilot as a
flight-control system; Arduino designed it specifically for this application. The following
is an image of this unit:
This flight system uses a flight version of Arduino to do the low-level feedback control
we talked about earlier. The advantage to this system is that you won't need to create and
debug lots of Arduino kit.
Either way, you'll need to build a quadcopter:
• Purchase a kit and construct it yourself
• Purchase a quadcopter that is already assembled
There are a number of assembled quadcopters available that use the ArduPilot flight con-
troller. One place to start is at
ArduPilot.com
. This will give you some information on the
flight controller, and the store has several quadcopters that are already assembled. If you
are thinking that assembling a kit is the right approach,
ArduCopter-Kits-s/33.htm
,
as each of these not only sell assembled quadcopters, but kits
as well.
If you'd like to assemble your own kit, there are several good tutorials about choosing all
the right parts and assembling your quadcopter. Visit
blog.tkjelectronics.dk/2012/03/
All of these links have excellent instructions. The following is an image of a quadcopter
that we built; it uses the ArduPilot:
