Windy West R.C. Club

Lethbridge, AB

My next project: Tricopter

The Aeroquad is done and very successful as many of you have seen,  but it is electronically quite complex.  So I thought I would try something slightly simpler that doesn’t need any sophisticated controllers to work , have a look.

I think it may be better suited for aerial photography, because you can put the camera between the front two motors, and it should be inherently stable with the gyros.

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2 Responses to “My next project: Tricopter”

  1. Logan says:

    There is some amazing quadrotor stuff coming out of the University of Pennsylvania. Check out the video here: http://fling.seas.upenn.edu/~dmel/wiki/index.php?n=Main.Quadrotor#

    The Atmel AVR seems to have become quite popular in the past few years. Did you go with the ATmega328P on your Aeroquad?

  2. Podnboomer says:

    Hi Logan: I used the Atmega128 on the Arduino Mega board, its got more memory(I’m looking
    to the future) with altitude hold and GPS as a possibility. The 328 has about 29k bytes used
    by the program out of 32k the 128 has 128k of ram. Thats some pretty fancy maneuvering they
    are doing at the Video. I wonder how many Aeroquads it took to get through the hole.

    Heinz

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