Do all quadcopters have flight controller boards ?

It is possible, to fly without one, but it would take someone really impressive to do it. But for all practical purposes you need a stabilization board. Orange makes a receiver with built in stabilization.
 
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thnx for the advice on the FCB. I started by just a test board for an ESC and brushless motor. Now I'm looking more at the entire QUAD.
My most recent insight is feeding my PICAXE micro-controller directly to 4 esc/motor combos. This wud just be for limited preliminary tests.
 
PICAXE programming is beginning to become kind of dated, and writing stabilization firmware is no easy task. Even with all of the opensource softwares for Arduino it is easily a minimum of a 4 month task.
 
Thnx for ur note on picaxe, but I just use it to send throttle sigs. In a tethered environment, I will send a low speed to all motors, and visually adjust 4 equal speeds. Then I will increase speed for a minimal ascent. So I am an experimenter.
 
larryesc said:
Thnx for ur note on picaxe, but I just use it to send throttle sigs. In a tethered environment, I will send a low speed to all motors, and visually adjust 4 equal speeds. Then I will increase speed for a minimal ascent. So I am an experimenter.
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Hahaha, sounds good, but remember that you will need to incorporate some stabilization.
 
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