How to assemble a copter (flying platform) in 2 hours

Recently, videos about flying robots or as they are called - drones, copters, and UAVs have found unprecedented popularity. These nimble quadrotates, under computer control, perform acrobatic stunts, play ping-pong, can fly along GPS coordinates and carry out aerial photography.

At the heart of such devices is a multi-rotor flying platform. The most common option is with four rotors rotating diagonally in opposite directions. The rotors are controlled by a processor that collects data from three gyroscopes, which allow determining and fixing the position in space in all three planes. The accelerometer allows the processor to establish an absolutely horizontal position. Barodatchik allows you to fix the device at the desired height. The displacement of the apparatus in space occurs due to a change in the speed of rotation of one or another pair of motors. The platform rolls and moves.

From the side this seems terribly difficult, in fact, any office employee after reading a few hours a forum model aircraft, armed with a control board, engines, regulators and other components in just a couple of hours can build such a device. In the studio of an Internet TV channel about technology and software SLTV.RU, such a copter from the materials at hand was collected in just two hours. Watch the video .