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This has been on my mind since I thought about ez-b controlled quadcopters. If you use an accelerometer, how would you set it up for auto stabilization? And further more, how would you set up the full flight controls?
@Technopro , xl robots will come out with a gyro stabilized 4 or 6 brushless speed controller for use with 3s or 4 batteries when we release the more info about the XL quad and hex copter for ezb v4.
XL-robots is making one or are you buying premade?
We are gonna have a pcb made
Any ideas on release date?
@Technopro- Have you looked at the Arduino IDE yet? It's very similar to EZ Script. I recommend you do a little research on it if you haven't already. It's a handy skill to have in your tool kit. You can get some cheap boards for simple projects. I got a Nano for $8 from China on ebay. I used an Uno last year to power a custom led sequence. It sat outside for a month so I didn't want to use my EZB. If I was gonna risk ruining something a $30 Uno was a better option. I don't know what I'm going to do with the Nano yet but it was so cheap I bought it mostly to solder the pins into it since I had never soldered pins into a board before. (I didn't do too bad
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I got the Getting Started with Arduino kit by Make ($60ish USD at radio shack). They also sell a book to go with it but it's online for free all over the place so no need. You may even just want to read through the book without buying the kit. Going through that book not only taught me about the coding, it actually taught me quite a bit about microcontrollers in general and helped me realize and better utilize the power of my EZB. It took a huge dent out of my learning curve of electronics and robotics and really helped me understand a lot of the basic concepts. One thing is that there are some things in the book that go over things that aren't in the kit I got. (I guess there's a more complete/expensive one.) None the less I found spending the weekend(ish) with it invaluable.
@ technopro, we don't have a estimated date , we are doing the initial parts sourcing to put everything together first then once we have that we will make the first models . Size and shape are a concern. So that being said it will be available before june.
Ok thanks, and if you need any help, let me know.