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Building a Quadcopter

Note: This is the start of the 'My Projects' section. This is where I post about the projects that I personally do. You can track my progress, my decisions and their outcomes for the problems I face and of course failures (sort of...). So, I hope you enjoy this as much as I do and please leave comments. Ever since I started building model aircrafts I wanted to build a Quadcopter (a.k.a. Quadrotor). I was fascinated by their agility, their simple design and control but need of a complicated stabilization system. The only thing that delayed me to build one is the relatively high cost for the components. But finally I found an opensource quadcopter project named AeroQuad ( link ) which was just within my budget. So, I started gathering my resources... The first thing I needed was a good Transmitter/Receiver pair, which turned out to be a problem because a good pair costs a lot. A quad will need at least a 4-Channel one. That's a bare minimum, so a 6-Channel one would be th