Before putting the props on, you have to calibrate the accelerometers. Find a quiet and flat place to put your quadcopter on. Fire up ez gui...
DIY drone - tutorial for developers | Part 9 - Calibrating your ESCs and fix the throttle
Connect your ESCs to the FC. Again, be careful and connect the signal wires (white) on the inside. You should use 2, 3, 5, and 6. They shoul...
DIY drone - tutorial for developers | Part 8 - Hooking up the FC
Testing out the receiver (RX) with the flight controller (FC) Let's connect the RX to the FC and test it out like that. First upload the...
DIY drone - tutorial for developers | Part 6 - Mechanical assembly
The frame itself is quite obvious to mount as its documentation is quite clear. But the motor assembly is not. Here is the end result. - use...
DIY drone - tutorial for developers | Part 7 - Motors + ESCs setup and test
Charging up a battery It is a 3S which means 3 elements of 3.7 volts adding up to 11.1v. When you'll charge it up through the little con...
DIY drone - tutorial for developers | Part 5 - Assembling the power components
Here is an overview of what we gonna need to do: The convention is always the same to avoid shorting cable: anything with live power is fem...
DIY drone - tutorial for developers | Part 4 - Dev environment
Development environment Ha, finally the easy part ;) Toolchain The FC is programmed like an arduino so you'll need the arduino toolchai...
DIY drone - tutorial for developers | Part 3 - Ordering the parts
I used hobbyking.com but I am not affiliated with them in any way, you can take this as the baseline of stuff that work together The order i...