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#1 Vadorequest

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Posted 06 September 2013 - 03:21 PM

Hi.

 

I'm a student in development, I'm currently exchange student in Denmark where I have another courses, electronic especially.

 

I'm using Netduino Plus 2 in this course, now I have to to a project which merge several courses, the first one is development (C#) with Micro Framework and Netduino, the second is Windows phone development (7.8).

 

The project is in group of 5 students and we have some ideas but no experience in this domain.

 

One of our idea is to make a robot, like a car. One other (more fun) is to make a quadcopter. In both case we can have some money from the university (200€ max). We have to make it from scratch.

 

So, I'm asking you if you know some tutorials or experience about this kind of thing, we have to buy the components, build it, develop the software and make it works. We are also worried about control the robot/quadcopter via the phone because we have to use both (like we want) so we thought about control the device with the phone but we don't know really how.

 

I would be grateful if you can help me with some advices, tutorials about it. We don't know if it's possible with netduino, we can change if necessary.

 

Obviously, I'm a new user of Netduino, I just done the getting started, no really more. But I can learn, it's not the problem.

 

Thank you for your help.



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Posted 07 September 2013 - 06:11 AM

There are some tutorials over in the Wiki.  Have a look at the Sparkfun kit tutorials which have been rewritten with the Netduino in mind.

 

I'd probably look at the remote control car rather than the quadcopter project.  The quadcopter is going to need a fair amount of real time calculations in order to keep it stable.  I'm not sure this can be done with NETMF.  I know someone has had a go with the Netduino GO! but they had a fair amount of support from code on an STM32.  You can find more here.

 

Personally, I'd be thinking, remote car with bluetooth for communication with a phone.  You could use the accelerometers in the phone to allow you to steer the car.

 

Welcome to the Netduino community, hope you have fun.

 

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#3 Vadorequest

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Posted 07 September 2013 - 09:41 AM

Thank you, really interesting!

 

I will read more about the Wiki, but I had a look on quadcopter link and it's great, but seems difficult, you're right.

 

I will learn more about how make a car (little ^^) from scratch, components, prices, because I'm not a electronic programmer usually, I'm better for make websites :P



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Posted 07 September 2013 - 11:36 AM

While it's not easy to create a quad using NETMF it can and has been done  :)

 

Beat Heeb from Oberon has built and flown a small quad running NETMF

 

Here is a link to a show and tell which even has the full source code for the Quad

 

https://www.ghielect.../topic?id=12602

 

Cheers

Justin

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Posted 07 September 2013 - 11:54 AM

Thank you, it's a very nice example of what I want do.







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