Fly like an Eagle
summary
A quadcopter is built from scratch with a 3D printer, Raspberry Pi 3, brushless motors and Elixir/Nerves code; bootable firmware images update over HTTP and Nerves boots the craft in about ten seconds. Orientation fuses gyroscope and accelerometer with a complementary filter while control uses PID (initially P-only), telemetry streams to a black box and an Angular2 ground station via Phoenix sockets, first flights succeed but battery life is about five minutes.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Building quadcopter from scratch
- 4:41Design of Black Observe quadcopter
- 6:49Core software and flight logic
- 17:043D printing and assembly
- 19:11Debugging with Black Box
- 24:58First flight and hardware improvements
- 26:20Future plans and innovations
- 28:27Q&A
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