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simplest way implement ESC circuit for drone?
I'm designing a fun little quadcopter PCB based around the RP2040 chip and am interested to incorporate the ESCs in my design, all on one board. They don't need to be too fancy in terms of features ...
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Controlling 4 BLDC motors with a Raspberry Pi Model 4B
I am fairly new to electronics and have been working on a quadcopter project using the Raspberry Pi 4B. I am currently trying to figure out the best way to control four BLDC motors and would ...
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Making an ESP32 based flight controller [closed]
I'm trying to make a flight controller for brushless quadcopters with ESP32 using external sensors like MPU6050(Gyro & accel), BMP180(Baro), HMC5883L(Compass). I've seen lots of people make this ...
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How to drive MOSFET with 2.7v?
Okay, I have mini coreless motor drone. I want to make a bigger drone by replacing the corless motor with 180 motor. For that, I need to control 4 MOSFETs to drive four 180 motors. Here comes my ...
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Motor choice for a quadcopter, DC coreless or BLDC?
Ok, I am planning to build a quadcopter by myself. Almost anyone uses BLDCs with ESCs in the tutorials etc. I wonder why a BLDC is more preferable than a similar DC coreless motor. For example I found ...
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PID controller slowly oscillates out of control
I am trying to tune PID controllers for my drone. There are 3 controllers, one each for Pitch, Yaw and Roll. I have gotten Yaw tuned to a reasonable amount and I am assuming the values for Kp, Ki and ...
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How to use extra channels in drone controller for other purpose [closed]
I'm doing a hexacopter for my academic project. I brought flysky fs-ct6b drone controller. It has 6 channels. 4 channels is enough for controlling the drone. but I don't know how to use another extra ...
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Can I extend my ESC to motor using some thick wire? is it possible to do in that way
I'm doing a drone project for my academics. my arm of the drone is a little bit longer. How can extend my ESC? I watched extending a power-ESC cable will make problem, but increase ESC-Motor cable ...
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Using a battery as a voltage source in a DC DC converter to supply a second battery?
I was wondering if I could use a battery as Vin to a DC DC converter to charge another battery.
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Using a Li Ion battery pack and having it go through the DC to DC converter to charge a LiPo ...
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Beeper for lost FPV drone
I am not an expert in electronics, just the very basics so please bear with me.
I am trying to create beeper alarm for my FPV drone that will activate when it crashes or no movement for certain ...
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Li-Ion vs Li-Poly For Quads
Instead of using a $25 Li-Poly battery with a $10 charger, I was going to use one of these- https://hackaday.io/project/46436-3-cell-rc-battery-pack-made-with-18650-batteries What I was wondering Is ...
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Quadcopter balance with MPU-6050
It is not uncommon to see people asking about how to balance a quadricopter using MPU-6050. It's also common to see people answering that a PID controller is needed. However, people doesn't say how.
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Why is GPS module acting strange?
I am working on a Arduino based quadcopter. The Arduino being used is a Blend Micro. Not shown in the following diagram are 4 infrared sensors, 1 ultrasonic sensor and a 9 axis accelerometer.
The ...
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Quad copter - from PID values to motor power
I am struggling with a completely self built/written quad copter I am working on.
I am working on the PID controller for balance, right now just with a P value and it only reacts on ROLL and PITCH ...
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