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The quadcopter : how to compute the pitch, roll and yaw
The stick IMU from sparkfun: ADXL345 accelerometer, ITG3200 gyroscope, HMC5883L compass. After having introduced here the basics of an aircraft orientation and how to control it, this article is about...
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The T-REX 450 filmed by our quadcopter
We tried for the first time to fly together and that was pretty cool, until Benoit crashed the T-REX... Never forget the idle-up when looping with a collective pitch heli For some copyright reasons,...
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The quadcopter goes to an abandoned factory
The Simons abandoned factory A new video made with our quadcopter! This time we went to an abandoned factory in Le Cateau, France and shot around 30 minutes of video in and around the factory. We will...
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A max7456 library for Arduino
It's been a while since we published the last article.. Well we've been pretty busy those days but as a gift in this article I'll present you some of our lattest work : A library for the well known...
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Getting started with the Raspberry Pi : From the box to SSH
Guess what's in the box ?Hi there ! In this article, we'll discuss about the famous Raspberry Pi, a tiny and cheap computer. You can get one for around $30 and it has a credit card size. The whole...
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The Ardupilot Mega 2.5 : why it's awesome.
After a good run, we decided it was time for our homemade quadcopter controller board to go. Actually, it had to. It started to wobble in the air pretty violently for no reason while flying. We made no...
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The octocopter
One of the first flights We recently built a brushless gimball for our Gopro but our quadcopter became too heavy to fligh safely, so it was time to get something bigger. We first thought about a nice...
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New videos/ photos. When a drone goes 250m high
Hi everyone! I created a new album on my flick'r account : Drones and stuff. I will try to update it frequently with pictures of everything we do Our quadcopter We also posted 3 new videos on Youtube:...
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Animal motion detection : an Arduino project for photography
A real angry bird. I'm going to talk to you about a simple, yet fun project I did last year : an animal detection device that could control my DSLR and take pictures. I thought that it would be a...
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The tricopter
The tricopter Hi everyone! We have been pretty busy since we got our Ardupilot and setting it up was so easy and fun that we decided that it could be fun to get another multicopter with a "ready to...
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