I want to create a drone from scratch, including the controller. All I have is the most updated IDE, the Arduino Uno Starter kit and the Elegoo Mega 2650 starter kit. What can I do? Please help!
Get a LED, a resistor and learn how and why the example "Blink Without Delay" is working.
Study it as long as you can write it by heart.
You will need the concept for lit. any larger program.
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Start by making the physical devices necessary for your drone so they can mount the motors. controls, batteries and all the other necessary stuff.
I've left my first response intact below.
If you are serious, comb the internets for all who have chosen to do this, read as much as you can and when you find someone building the kind of quadcopter you are interested in flying (there are big differences), slavishly repeat what was done. Do not deviate by one iota of a scintilla of a whisper of difference.
Quadcopters are very careful balances among many factors. I have quadcopters that would not work if you you taped a nickel on them, for just one example. I have quadcopters that will fly OK for three minutes, but fly them a bit more aggressively and you destroy the battery.
It is unlikely that you will succeed if you do not follow a good recipe, I'm too lazy for analogies but it's like wanting to make Veal Prince Orloff before you know how to boil water.
Even with a recipe, you are more likely to waste time and money and food ingredients than land up with anything edible.
Yes, I am trying to discourage you.
Gee, tell us what you really think, alto
In addition to learning just a bit of programming, I suggest these steps:
Sit in a completely dark sound-proof room for four hours. No luxuries like electricity or plumbing, no buckets or batteries, no food or water allowed.
Next, take a brand new 100 dollar bill, or the equivalent in your part of the world, and set it on fire, allowing it to burn completely to ash.
After that, a scratch-built drone will be a piece of cake.
a7
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I think this is a wrong start for you. What you should (always) do first is search on the internet, and even a library with books and wifi, to gather information. A search on "diy drone arduino" yielded a solid week's worth of reading and video watching.
But... since you want others to do your searching, I would advise watching Joop Brooking's series on Drone DIY from introduction to completion. The complexity should thoroughly frighten you... and he made it with the simplest parts.
The intro...
Then try Electronoob...
Look up iforce2d website on youtube.....
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