Shrediquette - the award-winning multirotors by William Thielicke

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First flight - derbe evo

- February 29, 2016

The copter had its first flight yesterday. With the 5.5" Graupner Race-Props , the speed is absolutely amazing - I still need to learn how to control such a fast device properly. Here is a quick + dirty video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6I8i4Hk2J0 And Shrediquette is still open source of course, so here are the 3D files: william.thielicke.org/multirotors/derbe_evo_v97.zip The arms are from the Claerials HUMs quadrotor: http://claerials.com/shop/hums-ersatzarm/

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This project was started in 2008. The goal was to learn something about programming, electronics and control loops. Because I always need a cool project to learn new things, it was clear that something that can fly had to be built.
The project started as a "tricopter-only" project, but as I wanted to build smaller vehicles with more payload capacity, I decided to make some quadrotor, hexacopter and Y6 hexacopter firmwares too. My main interest is to build very small MAVs that fly as good as larger ones (or even better) and that can be controlled by wireless video link. I also experimented with autonomous flight in GPS-denied areas (video), and with GPS assisted autonomous hover (video).
-- William