This blog post is mostly about building a Hexacopter and setting up the Navio2 board with a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B.

The hardware involved with creating the frame:

  1. Turnigy Talon Hexacopter Frame V2 (625mm diameter)
  2. 6 Motors (Turnigy Multistar 3525 850kv 14 pole outrunners)
  3. 6 Turnigy MultiStar 30A BLHeli-S Rev16 V3 ESC 2~4S (Opto) (Electronic Speed Controllers)
  4. FrSky XJT 2.4Ghz Combo Pack For JR W/ Telemetry Module & X8R 8/16Ch S.BUS ACCST Telemetry Receiver
  5. Navio 2 Hat with Raspberry Pi 3 Model B
  6. Turnigy 9x Radio
  7. Multistar High Capacity 3S 4000mAh Multi-Rotor Lipo Pack

Modular Hexacopter Add-Ons to facilitate carrying equipment and carrying batteries.

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Setting up the hardware:

  1. Putting it all together
  2. Navio2 + Raspberry Pi Setup
  3. Calibration
  4. Writing Scripts

Github Repository

  1. Hardware Repository
  2. Software Repository