Pratham

FlightController

A basic PCB design which contains all components for a solo yet affordable basic drone controller

Basic flight controller – devlog

2026-10-11 – One could really say It took half my life away

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One could really say It took half my life away

To start of week 1 I wanted to try out something I have dreamed of making A flight controller for a drone, the only problem being I have never used Any pcb software. The First step was to download which took longer than usual because I use linux and did not realize that there is a downloadable appimage anyhow this took around an hour

After this I went onto the official webpage to maybe read as the youtube tutorials seem quite outdated

made my first circuit and read some documentation!

Learnt about the ERC (from future me I already know this is going to save my life)

Now that I had learnt some stuff I needed to actually understand what i would build So after some quick googling I learn the major components I would need. Luckily I had used the MPU6050 And some Idea about the other sensors so it did not overwhelm me. Next I checked out some designs to understand a bit more

The design I choose

Now lets start building!

First we got the microprocessor

Adding in all the connections for it

After the first one which took almost 3hrs because honestly there is too much and I still am learning about some of it luckily now I knew my way around stuff so it would become faster

Next adding everything else

The simple stuff:

Less simple stuff My favorite I love buck converters Data communication and others :

Finally the Inputs aka sensors The holy mpu6050(I wish gyro drift did not exist)

NEXT up the wiring see u there !