#PROTO X NANO QUAD COPTER SOFTWARE#

And macro fab and Brandon, specifically have been really great and super helpful. Yeah, that's been a real growth point from for working with macro fab has been talking a lot with Brandon, the customer, customer guy and saying, like, Oh, what about this or that? And he's like, well, not many people do that. So my because it's a platform, I'm doing a total of 13 different designs of this first run between the boards that hold the microcontroller, and then all of the other boards that you can use, you can expand your functionality And maybe six months ago now, when I was still doing all of the different designs that I've been doing. So what brought you down here to Houston? Well, IД¬ame down here to visit macro fam. So yeah, um, Scott, you you grew up in the northwest, you actually from Seattle, right? So IДecided to do I like quadcopters Yeah, theyДЇly in the bush, in the bushes and in the trees and stuff. Well, you know, what's the meaning behind the name?Д¬hickadees a bird that's native to the northwest. I've been looking at all those like, the new top level domains. And then like most people who come up to you in the park, I like it was at a drone. Yeah, but there's, there's lots of other types to like, try copters. Yeah, like a big banner on the top of your webpage? Quad? Yeah, I think I think that's what we should we should call it from here on out. So Arduino compatible space is the appropriate term.Д¬ool. But hopefully, branching out into the Arduino space also. And it's a modular flight control system, primarily for quad copters. So what I'm working on is this system called poly stack. And he started a company called chickadee. So this is a Scott shockcraft Yeah, um, he is a ex Googler. I'm your guest, Scott shockcraft of chickadee. Hi, and welcome to the macro fab engineering podcast. The FAA released new rules for operating rules for unmanned aircraft (Quads).Driver chips are on PCB cards that go into edge connectors. Motor controllers are called вЂњSwap DrivesвЂќ. The FR4 Machine Shield we mentioned in a previous podcast has a Kickstarter now.Autodesk EAGLE вЂ“ The perfect tool to designing stuff for PIC16MEGA32u4. AutoDesk purchased CadSoft from Farnell.His first build was a lap timer using the radio strength signal. Chickadee Tech is ScottвЂ™s first step into the hardware world.The Tiny Whoop is a small FPV quad that is easy to build.Scott got into Quadcoptors after watching the video Crash Session!!! His first quad was from Flite Test.Scott uses custom pin mappings and uses a larger ST MCU which required another fork. The very first flight controllers wereВ based of the Wii Nunchuck.

#PROTO X NANO QUAD COPTER SOFTWARE#

The software stack is based of off Beta Flight which is a fork of Clean Flight which is a fork of BaseFlight.Scott is a member of the Seattle Multi RotorsВ community.Scott is down here in Houston visiting MacroFab to see his production-run being built, while working on his test fixture with us (See Figure 2).Similar to shields for the Arduino platform. It has 13 different boards that can be stacked together. He is working on a modular flight control system called Polystack. Scott Shawcroft of Chickadee Tech (see Figure 1) is our guest on this weeks podcast.

Proto x nano quad copter