Category: project

My very first quadcopter build, proud builder of a barely hovering quad. I wanted to build a quadcopter since last year, finally I gathered the money and bought parts for a 250mm quadcopter!! Yipee! 😀 After some serious Googling, I decided on the motors, ESCs, Flight Controller board for my 250mm quad frame. I like

Major upgrades to the quad, basically a new build with much more stability and payload capacity A lot has happened over the last few months with my quadcopter building project, couldn’t update the blog as I was very busy with coursework. First up, I switched to APM 2.6 as I had mentioned earlier. I did

So I recently got into building camera gimbals, which is a handheld camera stabilization system. With the readings of an IMU (Accelerometer and Gyrometer) mounted on the camera, the system can sense how much the camera is tilting and to which direction, using these sensor readings a correction value is calculated using PID algorithm and

So I explored Processing quite a while back. Like its brother Arduino, it was very very simple and fun to learn. Any kind of application with emphasis on graphical output is well suited for building with Processing, with ease! As I was following the course “Creative Programming Digital Media and Mobile Apps” on course.org, I

The line follower bot is an autonomous robot, which essentially means it operates on its own without human intervention. Let me give you the very brief and generic idea of its working principle, it has three primary working units; 1. Line Sensor or Reflectance sensor (Pololu QTR-8RC reflectance sensor array).2. Microcontroller (Arduino UNO).3. Motors and

So last time I built a small single handheld gimbal, but as you might guess, a two handed gimbal is way more stable. So I thought of building a bigger and better gimbal for myself. I wanted this one to be able to carry much bigger camera than my Canon EOS 600D, so the motors

Following up with the last post on AutoQuad project, this is an update of how things went with my first quadcopter build.As you know I used MultiWii board and firmware, it was a pain to get it all setup and flying. After some PID tuning and exploration of the different flight modes that come with