HoverflySPORT™ User’s Guide
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Thank You for Purchasing the HoverflySPORT™!
We started this company with one goal in mind…to make things that hover and fly! All of us have enjoyed the thrill of RC for many years.
We have poured our heart and souls into our hobbies and flown, drove, and sailed just about everything. In the last few years, the feasibility
of making Inertial Motion Units (IMUs) at a price that the average hobbyist could afford has become a reality. Many high-volume consumer
applications utilizing gyroscope, accelerometer, pressure, magnetometer, and GPS have shrunk both the size and cost of these sophisticated
devices. The affordability of IMUs has enabled an explosion of activity in the building and flying of multi-rotor aircraft. Part of this is the
inherent need for hobbyist to build something new to fly or control. The rest of the enthusiasm lies in the amazing flight capabilities of
hovering multi-rotor aircraft. They enable the pilot to navigate the airspace in ways only imaginable a few years ago. Add a camera, and the
user can gain amazing views of the world around us.
There has been a great deal of attention on the prototyping and productization of IMU’s in the last year. Yet many attempts fail because
without in-depth knowledge on how these devices operate and how to fuse the data into stabile flight outputs is extremely difficult. The staff
at Hoverfly Technologies all have advanced degrees in engineering and never shy away from challenging problems. The stable control of a 6
Degree-of-Freedom (6DOF) aircraft is one of the most complex problems to solve. We believe we have a great solution and the magic is in
our HoverCore™ technology inside every HoverflySPORT™.
We hope that you enjoy using the HoverflySPORT™ for many years. This product is the base for a line of add-ons to take your flying to the
next level. Please understand that software is never finished. We will periodically release new versions of firmware which can easily be
loaded onto the HoverflySPORT™ board. Make sure you check our site for updates to this User’s Guide and our firmware.
The Hoverfly Team!
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