Quadcopter

Approximately one year ago I started designing my own quadcopter. I started with standard aluminium profiles and designed a mechanical construction to get a as stiff and light as possible quad. I printed the parts with a 3D printing device. Here are some pictures of how it looks like now:

I want to work with Arduino as much as possible because the students work with that as well, I use it in combination with the sensor stick from sparkfun: http://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=226746.0 Code can be found here: https://github.com/ptrbrtz/razor-9dof-ahrs/blob/master/Arduino/Razor_AHRS/Razor_AHRS.ino And here: https://sites.google.com/a/stoughton.k12.wi.us/fablab-stoughton/home/131422/alexander-horneck

Project notes

I2C distance is normally a few meters (2 a 3), 400pF wire. WII-remote goes beyond this or use a driver P82B96DR (at Farnell for €4,-) to reach 50meters, 3000pF wire. For this extensions you need 15V bus-voltage.
http://cladlab.com/electronics/circuit-design/communication-protocols/i2c-protocol

Going cheap wireless is possible with this lc module:
http://dx.com/p/433mhz-rf-transmitter-module-receiver-module-link-kit-for-arduino-arm-mcu-wl-green-220194

Atmega328P has opration voltage from 1.8-5.5V. Possibility to use 5V over the bus, I guess..

Personal introduction

Currently I'm working on my internship at the Control Systems department of Electrical Engineering at the Technical University Eindhoven. As a master student I'm interested in Control engineering, Robotics and Electronics. For several years I've been working at the innovation laboratoria of Fontys Eindhoven, where I designed embedded electronics. Also I gave lectures in mathematics and embedded programming.

Lateron you will see my blog been updated with more information.... See ya!