Flight control board

This is one of the most important things to control the drone from the ground. There are a number of flight control boards on the market. Some of them are open source and some of them are not. The following list has the most famous and top-rated flight controllers:

  • KK 2.0
  • CC3D
  • Naze32
  • KISS
  • ArduPilot
  • Vector
  • 3DR Pixhawk
  • DJI Nava M
  • LUX flight controller
  • DJI A3

In this book, we will use ArduPilot, as it is cheap and it is best for copters. It also covers our book title. The following picture of some flight controllers.

The ArduPilot is one of the best flight controllers for drones because of the following reasons:

  • It has a free, open source autopilot framework supporting different types of drones
  • It supports hundreds of ...

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