Raspberry Pi drones are an amazing platform for tinkerers who want to get their ideas into the world. But they need a flight controller in order to work.
In this video we walk through how to set up a drone with the very popular pixhawk flight controller! These little boards are a little old, but are super cheap, still advanced, and very reliable (even more reliable than Navio2 raspberry pi drones).
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Here, we'll show you how to:
- Set up the Raspberry Pi+Pixhawk hardware
- Wire the RPI and Pixhawk together via a UART connection
- Flash ArduPilot firmware to the Pixhawk
- Set up the RPI SD card and dependencies
- Set up RPI OS to allow communication via UART
- Control the Pixhawk drone from the Raspberry Pi with MAVProxy AND a simple Dronekit Python script
3D Printable Parts Referenced in the Video:
- Vibration Plates:
https://github.com/emlid/hardware/blob/master/VibroNavio2bot_rev_A.STL
https://github.com/emlid/hardware/blob/master/VibroNavio2top_rev_A.STL
- RPI Pixhawk Platform: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1N8qFvmVhQ03tsvBa2JPVpUtvsmaJqQ9L/view?usp=sharing