GoDrone: Writing a Quadcopter firmware in Go

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Parrot AR Drone 2.0 runs a Go-written firmware that is cross-compiled to ARM and temporarily swapped over the stock process, driving sensors and motors at a 200 Hz loop. Sensor fusion uses a complementary filter, control uses PID that still needs tuning, and a live flip demo tries to set roll to 180 then cut the motors — it sometimes crashes but the original firmware restores on reboot. Websocket UI and plotting tech ship with the project.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 2:04Nodecopter
3. 2:34The Firmware
4. 2:54Quadcopter Stablization
5. 8:59Live Demo & Coding
6. 21:31Outlook

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