Controller Board (APM1) - Guasch5000/Quadcopter GitHub Wiki

Controller Board

The controller board that we use to stabilize the quadcopter is this one.

Atmega 1280

The heart of Arduino Mega is the Atmega1280 microcontroller from Atmel, which has 128kB of flash memory.

More information about the hardware here.

The Atmega1280 is connected with APM IMU Shield using the four ports.

Port 0: USB

Port 1: GPS

Port 2: ADC

Port 3: Xbee/telemetry

IMU Shield

The other part is the IMU Shield. More information about it, here.