For anyone following this site, here is what I've been up to lately – building a quadcopter based on the Acc_Gyro 5DOF IMU sensor and a 16bit PIC. Although it's still a work in progress I decided to start putting together an article placeholder and build it up as project evolves. It's going to be a long one !

The source code will be Open-Source and will be hosted on Google Code, you can get code for quad copter here:

http://code.google.com/p/picquadcontroller/source/browse/#svn/trunk

As usual I like to start with a video demo, it's basically me controlling the tilt of the quad using a RC controller:

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