Build Your Own Quadcopter Flight Controller
Robotics course in designing a Drone Flight Controller from scratch using STM32. Configure ESCs, read IMU data, integrate RC Joystick, and implement PID control—no libraries, just clean code, and complete understanding. Includes a 1-hour 1:1 session to help with hardware setup or troubleshooting, so you won’t get stuck along the way.
Highly Practical
What you'll learn
✔ STM32 Programming: GPIO, Timers, SPI Interface, ADC, Interrupts, etc.
✔ Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) Integration and Coding
✔ Attitude Estimation: Euler Angles
✔ PID Implementation and Theory
✔ RC Joystick Integration
✔ Balancing the Drone
✔ Motor Control
✔ Pressure sensor Integration
✔ Altitude Control
Course Content
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CH0: Introduction to the Course
3 lessons- 0 - Welcome to the Course
- 1 - PDF Slides
- Header/Source Files and Complete Source Code
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CH1: Essential Components and Tools
3 lessons- 1 - Flight Controller and Drone companion
- 2 - Motor Connections
- 3 - ST-Link, Board programming
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CH2: Motor Control
6 lessons- 1 - Motor Fundamentals
- 2 - PWM Generation to Control the Motor speed
- 3 - Motor Control Library
- 4 - BLDC Motor and ESC
- 5 - Running the BLDC Motor using the ESC and PWM signal
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CH3: IMU Integration
5 lessons- 1 - Welcome words
- 2 - SPI Configuration
- 3 - IMU SPI Intarface Check
- 4 - Library Integration
- 5 - Final test
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CH4: Attitude Estimation
38 lesson- 1 - attitude estimation intro
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Attitude Estimation Course Excerpt CH1
- 2 - STM32 CubeIde Project creation
- 3 - Using SWV for printf function
- 4 - Using SWV to plot variables
- 5 - SPI theory
- 6 - SPI Configuration using STM32CubeMx
- 7 - SPI wirings
- 8 - Reading ‘Who am I’ register
- 9 - Sending data through SPI
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Attitude Estimation Course Excerpt CH2
- 1 - First version of the library
- 2 - Testing the library
- 3 - How to read the magnetometer?
- 4 - Magnetometer update 1
- 5 - Magnetometer update 2
- 6 - Testing a new version of the library
- 7 - DMA Theory
- 8 - DMA configuration
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Attitude Estimation Course Excerpt CH3
- 1 - Removing gyroscope biases
- 2 - Magnetometer bias explanation
- 3 - Timer Update Interrupts
- 4 - Magnetometer bias removal
- 5 - Normalization and scaling of IMU data
- 6 - ARM MATH Library Installation
- 7 - Library Integration
- 8 - A notion of frame
- 9 - Testing the library
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Attitude Estimation Course Excerpt CH4
- 1 - Attitude estimation, slides
- 2 - A notion of frame in detail
- 3 - 2D rotation
- 4 - Euler angles and Rotation Matrix
- 5 - Using the accelerometer to obtain pitch and Roll angles
- 6 - Using the magnetometer to obtain the Yaw angle
- 7 - Using the gyroscope to obtain the Euler angles
- 8 - Library Integration
- 9 - Complementary Filter
- 10 - Testing the libraries
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Final Library Integration
- 2 - timer update interrupt
- 4-library integration
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CH5 - Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) Controller
6 lessons- 1 - pid introduction
- 2 - pid theory
- 3 - pid implementation
- 4 - Using PID for Tilt Angle Control
- 5 - pid tuning
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CH6 : Make the Drone Fly!
4 lessons- 1 - introduction
- 2 - library integration
- 3 - drone configuration
- 4-final integration
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CH7 : RC Joystick Integration
4 lessons- 1 - RC Joystick Introduction
- 2 - RC Joystick Explanation
- 3 - Timer Input Capture Mode
- 4 - Joystick Drone Control
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CH 9 - Pressure sensor for Altitude Estimation
4 lessons- 1 - How to use the pressure sensor for the altitude estimation
- 2 - Integrating the library for the pressure sensor
- 3 - Demonstration of the altitude estimation
- 4 - Altitude Control
Target audience
Built For Engineers Like You
➜ Who wants to understand every part of a complete robot— from sensors to control loops.
➜ Embedded developers ready to dive deep into flight controller firmware using STM32.
➜ Robotics enthusiasts who love experimenting with sensors, PID control, and motor drivers.
➜ Makers who want to build a robot that flies *because of their own code*, not prebuilt libraries.
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✔ 8 hours of video content
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WHAT you'll need
✔ Or, your custom Hardware
✔ Basic knowledge of programming STM32 MCUs
✔ Motivation