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WiFlier

Take an ESP8266 and strap a gyro, magnetometer, accelerometer, barometer and AVR with a motor controller to it and what do you get?

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WARNING: This project is still in its early stages. While it .. kind of flies ... it doesn't fly well.

Because I love ESP8266's so much, I figured adding one to a quadcopter wouldn't be so bad. Not really adding it to one as much as making it the brain, itself. This project surrounds my fun with the sensor platform and 4 motor controllers that might some day fly!

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Adam Fabio wrote 06/16/2015 at 16:45 point

PID loops on the ESP8266? Definitely looks like a fun project!

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Blecky wrote 06/17/2015 at 04:39 point

Unfortunately because of the lack of decent math libraries and efficient floating point arithmetic, the ESP module itself won't be able to do it very well.

It took me 1.5 seconds to calculate 32bytes of information (doing simple shifts and multiplications) on the ESP. They are just no good for math work.

Better to offload that to the AVR.

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