HopWorks
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Hey Everyone! Greets!!
In case I post this before I have performed my search, my apologies!!
I need advice. All I need is a point in the right direction for a frame and advice on the proper motors and ESC's.
I want to build a tiny quadcopter. Something in the range of 50-150 mm, or even smaller. I have an autonomous in-door task in mind, and I will either buy or build a smd-based flight controller for it. I might even build the ESC's myself, although would prefer to buy pre-built equipment because of the reliability and ease of troubleshooting. I'm looking for direct-drive for the motors, and weight and power is certainly an issue. So is cost since I'm not funded by big company with endless resources for a thousand dollar prototype. It's for home use anyway.
I am looking to build a platform that will perform tasks based on code, a scripting language of sorts that I have developed myself. I plan to have on this platform, a few 2.4GHz transmitter/receiver pairs for telemetry, interactive control, and a camera feed from a small CMOS camera module. A 9 axis accelerometer, and (based on R&D) several IR RX/TX pods for object detection. I haven't used simple camera feeds for object detection or identification lower than a beaglebone black platform so that's not in the works for now.
All I really need to get started though is a tiny lightweight frame and some tiny motors and tiny propellers. I have googled this somewhat, but I figured I would find the best sources here, which is the reason for my post.
It's an idea from a guy (myself) who envisions such ideas but doesn't have the product knowledge in this area. This is a reach out so I can certainly get started!
I fly my little palm-sized quadcopter all the time in the hopes I'll get good enough to try something larger. This idea is based on that, but certainly not forwarding that area of interest for me. I write scripts and conditional code better than I react at the flight stick. lol.
Hope I didn't bore you with my post, and certainly appreciate your time! Thank you for taking the time to read about my reach-out idea!!
Sincerely,
Gary Rubin
HopWorks - Embedded Imagination
In case I post this before I have performed my search, my apologies!!
I need advice. All I need is a point in the right direction for a frame and advice on the proper motors and ESC's.
I want to build a tiny quadcopter. Something in the range of 50-150 mm, or even smaller. I have an autonomous in-door task in mind, and I will either buy or build a smd-based flight controller for it. I might even build the ESC's myself, although would prefer to buy pre-built equipment because of the reliability and ease of troubleshooting. I'm looking for direct-drive for the motors, and weight and power is certainly an issue. So is cost since I'm not funded by big company with endless resources for a thousand dollar prototype. It's for home use anyway.
I am looking to build a platform that will perform tasks based on code, a scripting language of sorts that I have developed myself. I plan to have on this platform, a few 2.4GHz transmitter/receiver pairs for telemetry, interactive control, and a camera feed from a small CMOS camera module. A 9 axis accelerometer, and (based on R&D) several IR RX/TX pods for object detection. I haven't used simple camera feeds for object detection or identification lower than a beaglebone black platform so that's not in the works for now.
All I really need to get started though is a tiny lightweight frame and some tiny motors and tiny propellers. I have googled this somewhat, but I figured I would find the best sources here, which is the reason for my post.
It's an idea from a guy (myself) who envisions such ideas but doesn't have the product knowledge in this area. This is a reach out so I can certainly get started!
I fly my little palm-sized quadcopter all the time in the hopes I'll get good enough to try something larger. This idea is based on that, but certainly not forwarding that area of interest for me. I write scripts and conditional code better than I react at the flight stick. lol.
Hope I didn't bore you with my post, and certainly appreciate your time! Thank you for taking the time to read about my reach-out idea!!
Sincerely,
Gary Rubin
HopWorks - Embedded Imagination