Top 22 Quadcopter Open-Source Projects

• ExpressLRS

  111 3,098 9.1 C++

  STM32/ESP32/ESP8285-based High-Performance Radio Link for RC applications

  

Project mention: ExpressLRS-Configurator rant | /r/ExpressLRS | 2023-10-05

Just put the firmware builds under https://github.com/ExpressLRS/ExpressLRS/releases

• inav

  45 2,876 9.9 C

  INAV: Navigation-enabled flight control software

  

Project mention: Flight controllers to interface with raspberry pi | /r/fpv | 2023-06-01

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• cleanflight

  5 2,567 4.5 C

  Clean-code version of the baseflight flight controller firmware

  

• Low-Cost-Mocap

  2 1,262 8.0 TypeScript

  Low cost motion capture system for room scale tracking

Project mention: Open Source Motion Capture for Autonomous Drones | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-23

Found it in the Youtube video description: https://github.com/jyjblrd/Mocap-Drones

• rotors_simulator

  6 1,166 0.0 C++

  RotorS is a UAV gazebo simulator

  

• gym-pybullet-drones

  4 1,083 8.4 Python

  PyBullet Gymnasium environments for single and multi-agent reinforcement learning of quadcopter control

  

• DroneBridge

  5 685 0.0 C

  DroneBridge is a system based on the WifiBroadcast approach. A bidirectional digital radio link between two endpoints is established using standard WiFi hardware and a custom protocol. DroneBridge is optimized for use in UAV applications and is a complete system. It is intended be a real alternative to other similar systems, such as DJI Lightbridge or OcuSync.

  

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• esp-drone

  2 641 5.4 C

  Mini Drone/Quadcopter Firmware for ESP32 and ESP32-S Series SoCs.

  

• safe-control-gym

  2 515 6.2 Python

  PyBullet CartPole and Quadrotor environments—with CasADi symbolic a priori dynamics—for learning-based control and RL

  

• bluejay

  4 434 0.0 Assembly

  :bird: Digital ESC firmware for controlling brushless motors in multirotors (by mathiasvr)

• EmuFlight

  7 428 9.0 C

  EmuFlight is flight controller software (firmware) used to fly multi-rotor craft.

  

• drone-flight-controller

  1 294 2.7 C++

  A quadcopter flight controller based on Arduino Uno

• LuaTelemetry

  1 288 0.0 Lua

  FrSky SmartPort(S.Port), D-series, F.Port and TBS Crossfire telemetry on all Taranis and Horus transmitters

• ExpressLRS-Hardware

  5 219 0.0

  STM32/ESP32/ESP8285-based High-Performance Radio Link for RC applications

  

• superview

  3 206 0.7 Go

  A small program that takes a 4:3 aspect ratio video file, and transforms it to a 16:9 video using the GoPro SuperView method

• EmuConfigurator

  3 140 5.3 JavaScript

  Emuflight Configurator is a cross-platform configuration tool for the Emuflight flight control system

  

• QUICKSILVER

  4 140 8.9 C

  Flight Controller Firmware (by BossHobby)

  

• quad

  3 115 5.6 Rust

  Firmware, hardware and documentation for my autonomous quad copter project (by peterkrull)

• gomavlib

  1 101 8.3 Go

  Mavlink library (2.0 and 1.0) for the Go programming language

  

• ESP_Pilot

  1 11 5.2 C++

  ESP32 Flight Controller for quadcopters

• blender-quadcopter-fpv

  2 7 0.0 Python

  Quadcopter FPV Simulator for blender to capture epic footage

• quadcopter

  1 1 3.8 C++

  quadcopter control code

Project mention: Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job? | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-03

Got my first internship building drone navigation systems after building my own quadcopter flight control board (software included) (https://github.com/alextousss/quadcopter)

By the way, looking for a second one March-September 2024 :)

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