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Choosing a flight controller for dRonin
dRonin supports many different flight controller boards. Which one you choose depends on your model, the capabilities you want, and your budget. You can build a quadcopter or a plane for less than $60 using the most affordable boards, or you can spend $100 on the flight controller alone.
- AeroQuad32
- BrainFPV
- BrainFPV RE1 (no nav sensors on board)
- DTFAir DTFc (no nav sensors on board) Also Colibri Race / TBS PowerCube.
- DTFAir Seppuku
- Lumenier Lux (only V1, and no nav sensors are on board)
- OpenPilot Revolution (including many race-only variants including Airbot F4)
- OmniBus F4 (Variants without SD card)
- PikoBLX clones
- Quantec Quanton
- Seriously Pro Racing F3 EVO (only the EVO variant) and clones
- Tau Labs Sparky
- Tau Labs Sparky2
- Team Black Sheep Colibri / Gemini hexcopter (supported by Quanton target)
If you want to build an FPV multicopter, the BrainFPV (works also with betaflight) and Seppuku (does not work with betaflight, but comes with baro and magnetometer) are probably the best choice, as there is an integrated OSD. If you don't require the integrated OSD, the OpenPilot Revolution is a great board. Of course, dRonin will work great on any of the supported STM32F4 boards.
For micro-quad based on 20x20mm format, the F3 boards (PikoBLX and clone) do have 2 UART which is a must have for OSD or Telemetry. Some F4 20x20mm board are also available with built-in OSD but one single UART (i.e no way to use telemetry).
For cheap setups, User @yds is updating a great post with supported flight controllers (https://github.com/d-ronin/dRonin.githttps://forum.dronin.org/forum/d/237-deals-sales/16). Bear in mind that "Clone" are more often than not diverging from original boards: sensor removed for a cheaper race only variant, alternate flash chip, alternate pin layout, etc... As a consequence, from batch to batch a cheap board that is known to work is not guaranteed to work in its subsequent release. This is more than acceptable for a cheap ($15) board, but avoid spending more than $40 on a no-name clone: price-wise, it is more sensible to spend $60 on a Seppuku/Brain.