Building a custom octocopter from scratch with no prior hardware experience
Summary
The post documents building an eight-motor octocopter with zero hardware experience, focusing on fault-tolerant RL control. It covers CAD, CNC milling, Betaflight integration, and sim-to-real RL training using PPO with domain randomization, aiming for RL-policied flight through motor failures. It includes detailed logs, experiments, and a plan to deploy on a Raspberry Pi with ONNX for inference.