on the bench, personal project · in progress
Autonomous drone
A quadcopter that should one day fly itself: an F405 keeps it in the air, a Raspberry Pi 5 decides where to go.
What it is
A work-in-progress autonomous quadcopter. The split is the classic one: a flight controller for the fast, boring, vital work of staying level, and a companion computer for everything that needs thinking.
How it fits together
- F405 flight controller: stabilisation and motor control.
- Raspberry Pi 5 as the companion computer, talking to the flight controller over MAVLink.
- GPS for position, a camera for computer vision.
Stack
- F405
- Raspberry Pi 5
- MAVLink
- GPS
- Computer vision
threads: Telemetry & protocols, Microcontrollers, Raspberry Pi, Computer vision