The Rawpter 9 Drone is a quadcopter that can fly in First Person (angular rate control) mode, fly in the easy-to-pilot "angle control" mode, and can autonomously return to its original location. It can be further coded to fly from waypoint to waypoint. Building this project will take a beginner from zero to hero in the Maker space - cutting through years of research and tinkering to give you the chops to build ANY mechatronics project.

Rawpter 9 has three layers of failsafe logic and hardware to prevent flyaway. It is designed to take some tumbles without expensive damage and allow quick turnaround to the skies after a crash. All flight configuration is tweaked simply with your phone while the Rawpter is powered up.

It makes full use of the ESP32-S3 hardware and dual core design so that it can have a fast, uniterupted inner attitude loop and multiple sensor and autonomous control outer loops. It makes use of all hardware features that offload tasks from the cores such as LEDC, RMTCtl, MCPWM.

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In this build, you will learn the following sensors:

UBLOX Max-10S (Global Positioning)

IMU 40609 (Attitude from its Accelerometer and Gyro)

IST8310 Magnetometer (Compass Heading)

BMP 581 Pressure Sensor (Altitude)

Flyski Receiver (2.4GHZ Control)

ESP32-S3 Wifi (2.4GHZ WebUI)

See our Instructable for the full build.