Hello everyone and welcome to the blog of the Smartphone Quadrotor fourth year project. As part of the requirements for our undergraduate engineering degree, a team design project must be completed.
Our idea for the project is to create a quadrotor. For those who don't know what that is, imagine a helicopter with four rotors (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrotor). The most unique aspect of this project will be the way it keeps the cost down. By using a smartphone, a device that most people already have available to them, very little additional hardware will have to be developed for the quadrotor. Additionally, the code to control the quadrotor can be written as an phone app in higher level languages removing the barrier that firmware presents to a lot of do-it-yourselfers.
This blog will document the progress of the project. The requirements, design, development, research, and perhaps even commercialization of the project will be explored.
All source code will published under an open source license and is available on GitHub here: https://github.com/smartphonequadrotor.
Here's to a successful project! Let us know what you think.
