"Cool design! (and greetings from Ålborg, Dzl) A few related links - the kk guys in Korea have some interesting work along these lines: Single-prop VTOL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sY3L-dow8c and a DualCopter with counter-rotating…"

"Not as cheap as a Seeeduio - doesn't have all the features you listed on the Olimexino but quite a few of them are there, and this has been available for quite a while now: $22.50…"

"This is really exciting new, actually - I look forward to using the new Arduino boards to teach students how to make things that are not stuck being virtual com-port devices finally! What's awesome about the Arduino is it's ease-of-use,…"

"FlyPad: http://shingle.dy.fi/"

"Chris, You should note this quote from PNI's website: "The module streams raw accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetometer data, as well as meaningful orientation information represented as quaternions, through a USB/HID interface." So…"

"Chris, You should note this quote from PNI's website: "The module streams raw accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetometer data, as well as meaningful orientation information represented as quaternions, through a USB/HID interface." So…"

"why exactly do you need the ardupilot board at all? you already have control of your motors and you could easily get a GPS to send data directly to your PC..."

"I would also be interested if you're doing another run at some point... Best regards, Dan"

"Why not use a Nunchuck from a WII. There's a nice interface from Sparkfun or Solarbotics and it has accelerometers plus the cool joystick!"

"I have been thinking about this as well dan. I currently have a wii remote in bits in my workshop and have been looking at hopw to control the aircraft with it. I have managed to get it to control my pan/tilt camera mount but that is just basic and…"

"Bill, "DCM lite" sounds perfect for this in terms of non-aerobatic flight then ... but what if I want it to be able to do aerobatics -- go inverted, for example, or hover as I mentioned before? How could we send data to the DCM so it…"

"Dan, You may or may not need a magnetometer on the flight controller. It depends on how you define the interface. I think that there is an intuitive way to define the interface such that the yaw orientation of the hand-held is irrelevant, so you…"

"You can hardwire the wiimote (or, more appropriately for this app, the Motion Plus). I think it uses I2C. No need for bluetooth. I'd use a magnetometer to substitute for the IR camera."

"Thanks Bill and Chris - and yes, the wiimote could work for a starting point. I'm planning to start simple and build my way up from there ... to get the feel right, however, I think the "tightest" control would of course come from…"

"What a cool idea! I think the "controller" side hardware could be simpler than the airborne side, since it's stationary. Basically you just need a wiimote-style sensor setup, right? How about using an actual wiimote?"

"Hi Dan, Very interesting idea. Technically, it could be done, I think, it would even be possible to implement a reasonable interface without magnetometers. I have been flying for 25 years using joysticks, and I am not very good playing Wii games,…"