Links

Documentation

The internet is full of resources, but they can be rather overwhelming. Therefore, here is a collection of interesting resources:

• How to make a Drone: Presentation by Evert, given during the workshop. 54 slides.
• The Beginner’s Guide to Multicopters (Polakium Engineering): pdf, 19 pages. Ignore all the stuff about flight controllers.
• Arducopter wiki: Contains some generic info about drones too.
• Navio2 wiki: Specifically about the Navio2. Sometimes confusing. The forums are rather responsive.

Shops

There are a lot of shops to get spare parts. Here are some of more popular ones, and comments for each one:

• Hobbyking: Cheapest of them all. Has a number of different warehouses around the world. If you wait long enough while looking at a product, they may suggest an even lower price (with a warning that it won’t appear again – it will).
• Altigator: Rather expensive, but based in Belgium so shipping is cheaper/faster.
• MHM Modellbau: Random shop in Germany, where the frame and landing gear is bought.

Apart from this, Raspberry Pi’s and Navio stuff is bought from the usual places.