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Former Member over 12 years ago

Hi Ben,

 

I've been watching your show for about 6 months now and have watched every episode so far. I look forward to your new episodes each week. I am an electrical engineering student at the University of Wyoming right now and have recently become fascinated with microcontrollers and other electronic hobbies to keep me entertained (and learning) outside of school. A project I have been interested in seeing someone build (and eventually building myself) is a miniature quadcopter. Ideally I would want to build a durable, yet handheld sized quadcopter that uses an arduino board (or other inexpensive controller) and was built as cost efficient as possible. I'm very interested in how to interface a controller through either wifi or radio with the quadcopter. I realize that something so small wouldn't be very useful to fly outdoors as it could be blown around pretty easily by the wind (especially Wyoming wind), however my main area of use for it will be indoors. I think it would be a great way to teach people about RC devices and how a quadcopter (or even a helicopter) works in general.

 

Thanks,

Jerrid Schilling

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    0 ckraft over 12 years ago

    You mean like this http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/crazyflie-nano-quadcopter-kit-6dof-with-crazyradio-bccfk01a-p-1364.html?cPath=170_172 ?

     

    I've seen some smaller ones too that people are building using PCB's for the whole assembly.

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    0 ckraft over 12 years ago

    You mean like this http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/crazyflie-nano-quadcopter-kit-6dof-with-crazyradio-bccfk01a-p-1364.html?cPath=170_172 ?

     

    I've seen some smaller ones too that people are building using PCB's for the whole assembly.

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    0 Former Member over 12 years ago in reply to ckraft

    Similar to that yes. But I guess I just would like to see how they are built from the ground up. Maybe not that small or possibly smaller. I'm curious how to build one on a relatively low budget compared to how much one them costs prebuilt or even when buying an actual diy kit. They are really spendy from what I've seen.

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