Introduction

Hey everyone.

My name is Evan Kaiser. I am a student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute studying Aerospace Engineering. In January, I decided to take the semester off from my studies to do an internship at Dryden Flight Research Center in southern California.

As Dryden is located in the middle of the desert, there is not much fun to do in the evenings (LA is close, but not close enough to go every weekend). So I decided to build an Arduino based quadcopter.

Yes, I should have started documenting this before now, but better late than never. So the original goal of this project was to create an autonomous quadcopter that could bounce around the room and not hit anything. Then, a little while ago, I decided that flying a quadcopter manually with a remote was too hard. So I decided that I needed to build an android app that would be able to control the quadcopter via tilt, with a button to turn autopilot or autohover on.