Porting a quadcopter attitude controller from MATLAB to MWORKS: what changes, what does not, and why 1 ms fixed-step PID gains need no retuning.
Porting a Quadcopter Attitude Controller to MWORKS Read More »
YOLO model compression explained: add SE attention, then distill, prune, and INT8 quantize to cut size and latency, plus tracking and multi-task tricks.
YOLO Model Compression: Distillation, Pruning, Quantization Read More »
Mercury is an open-source transforming drone that flies as a quadcopter and drives on the ground on its propeller guards, plus a replication checklist.
Mercury Transforming Drone: Open-Source Fly-and-Drive UAV Read More »
Antenna gain and length explained: dB, dBm, and watts, wavelength math, and why a passive antenna can still focus energy into real gain, plus VSWR tips.
Antenna Length and Gain Explained: dB, dBm, and Watts Read More »
A counter-drone radar field note: how an X-band FMCW requirement becomes a spec tree, a domestic BOM, and a 1,000-unit line with the numbers behind it.
Counter-Drone Radar Design: An RF Engineer’s Field Notes Read More »
WingTruss adds 3D-printed wing infill to Bambu Studio, auto-generating truss ribs and lightening holes to cut weight without CAD redesign. See how it works.
WingTruss: 3D-Printed Wing Infill for Bambu Studio Read More »
ODrive is an open-source brushless motor controller that turns cheap RC BLDC motors into closed-loop robot servos, backed by 1,111 Hackaday skulls.
ODrive: Open-Source Brushless Motor Controller for Robots Read More »
PX4 Autopilot is the BSD-3 open-source flight controller with 12,702 GitHub stars, a five-layer control loop, SITL simulation, and QGroundControl support.
PX4 Autopilot: 12,702-Star Open-Source Flight Controller Read More »
Codex plus a KiCad MCP server takes a quadrotor flight controller from prompt to a 40 x 40 mm six-layer board with 115 footprints and full fabrication exports.
Drone Flight Controller PCB Design With Codex and KiCad MCP Read More »
A wallet-sized ESP32-S3 drone with Wi-Fi video, browser control and RID broadcast. PCB thickness, propeller clearance and IMU setup decide if it flies.
ESP32-S3 Open-Source Micro Drone: Video, RID and Build Tips Read More »
