Arduino Quadcopter

[jkm, the stolen pifwafwi]

So I've been playing with the arduino lately. My wife thinks its hilarious to have holiday ornaments that are motion controlled and play songs but they aren't widely sold (for obvious reasons). So I programmed one up for christmas using the Arduino and it was just as obnoxious as it sounds. Every time someone comes to the door it plays christmas music and bounces around. Anyway it was fairly straightforward even if I did have to reach back 20 years to remember how to code in C.

So I started browsing about for some more projects and stumbled on to this:

http://aeroquad.com/

anyone put one of these badboys together?

[SoonerAtKU]

I haven't, but I saw the UPenn videos for the group doing some versions of them that do some awesomely complex aerial patterns. Rotating a formation while switching positions within it, waiting and avoiding each other, taking turns going through a passage. Fascinating stuff.

[yermom]

this looks like a great way to waste time and money

i hope i forget about this shortly