The Duckiedrone Operation Manual

Welcome to the Operation Manual for your shiny new Duckiedrone.

In this manual, you will learn how to build your Duckiedrone, test it, and understand its inner workings.

Are your duckies ready to fly?

Preliminaries

• Safety
• Prerequisites
• How to Use Multimeters
• Included materials
• Other Required Materials
• Software initialization
• Initializing the Flight Controller

Hardware build DD21

• Raspberry Pi & Power Board
  • Overview
  • Instructions
• TOF Sensor
  • Overview
  • Instructions
  • Checkpoint
• Motors and ESCs
  • Overview
  • Instructions
  • Checkpoint
• Flight Controller & Cleanflight
  • Overview
  • Instructions
  • Checkpoint
• Camera, propellers & Mounting HW
  • Overview
  • Instructions
  • Checkpoint

Drone handling

• First boot
• First connection
• Accelerometer calibrations
• Troubleshooting
• Datasheets

Using the drone

• Environment setup
• Flying Your Drone
• Flight Controller PID Tuning
• Common issues

Learning Experiences

• Introduction to Learning Experiences
• Supported Learning Experiences

Software Architecture

• Introduction
• ROS
• Nodes