Designing, Programming and Building a Quadcopter

[hassan980]

Hello,
Noting my keen interest in RC models, I have finally decided to give it a shot and build my very own Quadcopter. I am currently studying Aerospace Engineering and I have decided to design a Quadcopter for my Control Systems project. Since I have no practical experience on building one before, I would really appreciate if anyone of you can take some time out to guide me as to how to build and especially design and program the PCB flight control board for the Quadcopter.
Any advice, links, guides, videos etc will be appreciated.

Thank You,
Regards.

 

[hassan980]

Any other opinions can be considered as well. Thank You.

 

[Mike]

If you're looking to do more hands on/ programming some of it yourself, I'd probably look at an opensource project like Arducopter:

http://code.google.com/p/arducopter/