Building a Quadcopter using Raspberry Pi

Building a Quadcopter using Raspberry Pi...


The idea came to me during my holidays by reading an article by Andy Baker in the MagPI newspaper (numbers 19 and 20)

On reading the article, a quadcopter appeared to me very simple to build. And then, according to my research, I realized nevertheless that there are a lot of knowledge to know and that it will be quite complicated .. .

So I bought the material on ebay:

  • The F450 frame
  • The 4 motors
  • The 4 propellers
  • The 4 ESCs
  • The LIPO 3S battery
  • The MPU6050 (gyroscope / accelerometer sensor)




F450 kit


The MPU6050 (gyroscope / accelerometer sensor)

For the flight controller part, I use a Raspberry Pi 2 that I already have.

As passionate computer scientist, the idea is to program the Raspberry to drive the engines according to the MPU6050 sensor which will provide me informations on tilt and acceleration. So, I will not want to use the CC3D flight controller provided in the kit.

For the remote control, I bought:

  • 2 modules nRF24l01
  • 1 raspberry Pi Zero W


I intend to use an old USB joystick (and / or create an Android mobile app) to drive the quadcopter


I just received the material .... Let's go !

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