Drones Firmware — Beetroot Academy

I successfully completed Drones Firmware at Beetroot Academy on September 9, 2026.

The online course covered flight-controller firmware and autonomous missions, with practical work on configuration and log analysis. My final project was the Flightory Stallion VTOL, a fixed-wing aircraft with two tilting front motors and a fixed rear lift motor, running ArduPlane.

The project included a seven-waypoint mission in software-in-the-loop simulation (SITL) and tests of failsafe behavior. I also compared tilt-rate settings and analyzed a real-flight incident using DataFlash logs and photographs from the physical inspection.

Read the course completion post for the project results and lessons from the aircraft tests.

Download the final project presentation (PDF, Ukrainian, 13 pages).