Archive:Multicopter/Flightcontroller

Most importent part of your multicopter. It's brains.
All listed flight controllers / projects support GPS features like position hold and waypoint flight

Big matrix of all projects:
Big comparison table of different projects

Mikrokopter

Best in class both hardware and software. But very commercial and closed source. Most expensive.

• Mikrokopter.de

Arducopter

Very mature OpenSource project. Not as cheap as MultiWii, but a lot better ground station software.

• Main Page

MultiWii

Cheapest variant to get something to fly. Flightboard start at 10$ (without GPS) on eBay.

Some awesome facts:

• Can be used as standalone cam gimbal controller.
• Is able to drive a bi-copter (Osprey style)
• The flexbot micro copters are based on this (MultiWii version 2.2)

Links:

• Main Page
• Add-on naviboard
• other Wiicopter HowTo