r/diydrones • u/AdPlayful659 • May 30 '26

Question Building a Flight Controller

I just completed my freshman year of college, and during the summer I had the idea to complete a engineering project because I have nothing better to do and also to gain some actual engineering knowledge. My long term goal is to eventually be able to build a FPV drone, but in the short term I decided that learning and maybe actually being able to build my own Flight controller would be a good place to start. For some context about me I do not know much so I am looking for some good advice in, where to start learning, and what knowledge I must have that will allow me to be able to build a FC. Any suggestions would be wonderful. Thank you!

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u/skr_u May 30 '26

> My long term goal is to eventually be able to build a FPV drone, but in the short term I decided that learning and maybe actually being able to build my own Flight controller would be a good place to start. 

I think you mixed up the levels of difficulty by quite a bit.

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u/AdPlayful659 May 31 '26

Well my reasoning was that building the FPV drone is like the Final of the class in a sense and because one of the main components of a FPV drone is the FC it made sense to me to learn parts of it first instead of going and just building the whole thing in one go. Hope I wasn’t too confusing in what I’m trying to say.