My SMARS Quad

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This is my take on the SMARS Quad. Scrapped the idea of ever getting the top cover to fit and made some changes, the case now hosts a DC-DC step down that brings the 8 volts from the two 18650 Li-Ion batteries in series down to 5V, more suitable for the Adafruit driver's 16 servos. It also uses a balanced charger for the Li-ion pack. The Arduino Nano and Bluetooth HC-06 receiver sit on top of the batteries, held firmly in place by Velcro adhesive tape :-). The firmware is available and performs forward and backward walk, rotation (left and right), hand wave (left and right), stand and squat, skew (left and right), curtsy and prepare to jump. These are the basic movements that can be controlled using the excellent Bluetooth Robo Control App for Android. Even more movements and combos are available using the programmable Arduino Bluetooth Controller App for Android. The SMARS Quad can also be upgraded with a wireless camera (Syma05) connected to the charge socket, which can then be controlled using the Syma FPV+ App for Android. It's built on top of the basic SMARS Quad files by tristomietitoredeituit (minus the top cover) and uses the upgraded servo covers by jetdillo. To make it all work, I had to modify the Adafruit 16 servo driver cover to fit the capacitor.