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This is a hard question to answer without knowing what types of problems your hacker friends like to solve. For example, quadcopters tend to cater to certain t
by gpcz 13y ago
This is a hard question to answer without knowing what types of problems your hacker friends like to solve. For example, quadcopters tend to cater to certain types of problems (mapping, precise control, etc), while fixed-wing aircraft tend to cater to a different group (autopilots, longer-distance flights, etc).
- kposehn 13y agoThis would definitely be a quadcopter instead of a fixed wing.
- bliker 13y agohow about helicopters?
- revelation 13y agoCan you give some pointers to projects workin on fixed-wing aircraft? Autopilot would be what I'm interested in, but most everything I see are quadcopters, and then with these remote-control gadgets that I don't care about.
- gpcz 13y agoProbably the nicest page I've seen on the subject is DIY Drones ( http://diydrones.com http://diydrones.com ), which covers both fixed-wing and copter-based UAV engineering. Their fixed-wing autopilot is called ArduPlane ( http://plane.ardupilot.com http://plane.ardupilot.com ).