[asciimike]

Super cool!

Back in 2014 as a senior project in college we built a quadcopter for the BeagleBone: https://github.com/Rose-Hulman-ROBO4xx/1314-BeagleBone-Quadc...

We considered building the entire thing as a PCB, but it was pretty expensive to build one that size, plus we had concerns about its ability to take abuse (we broke a lot of quadcopters, even with our hastily jury rigged test stand.

Our main constraint was price: I think we set a total of $100 (including the BeagbeBone) for all the components, which included the IMU, a cheap VGA camera, motors, battery, etc. Super proud of the laser cut frame as well, though I bet if we had better access to 3D printers back then we could have printed a frame fairly easily.