Throttle
Controls altitude by motor speed
Showing at FITExpo 2026
AMD24The DroneWe Built
A low-budget drone built from scratch, including the flight controller, by a first-year team that started with no drone experience.
Our vision ↓
Exhibition
Meet us at FITExpo 2026
We are showing AMD24 and this website at FITExpo 2026. Come and talk to the team about how we built a drone from scratch, what went wrong, and where AMD Labs goes next.
Our vision
The intelligent, modular aerial infrastructure for an evolving world.
Our mission
Providing the adaptable aerial systems industries need to evolve and thrive.
Why we did this
A low-budget drone at the enterprise level
We set out to make a low-budget drone at the enterprise level, and to build it from scratch, including the flight controller.
Our story
Our story began with our first-year microcontroller project. When we started, none of us knew anything about drones. We had a dream and a proposal, and we had to bring them into the real world.
Here you can learn about us and how we built it. We are Team MicroSolutions. After the project, we started an R&D startup called AMD Labs.
Your Journey
Start wherever you like. Everything we learned is here, including what went wrong.
MoonLady Beta 1
Our custom-built quadcopter
Drag to turn the 3D model. A custom flight controller built around an STM32H743 runs firmware we wrote ourselves. An ESP32 handles Wi-Fi, a second ESP32 runs our own transmitter, and a web dashboard shows it all live.
250 Hzcontrol loop
~100 mradio range, line of sight
Rs 91,900product parts cost
5first-year team members
Drag to rotate. 3D model for illustration.
How It Flies
The Four Controls
Yaw
Rotates drone nose in place
Pitch
Tilts forward or backward direction
Roll
Moves sideways by motor speed
Aeronexus Dashboard
Real-time telemetry and pilot interface, built by our team and running in any web browser.
Honest status
Where the drone stands today
This is a working research prototype and enterprise level is still our goal. We publish what works, what is limited and what still needs proving, because that is what helps the next builder.
DemonstratedCustom flight firmware with a 250 Hz control loop, sensor fusion and failsafes running on the STM32H743.
DemonstratedStable vertical liftoff, reached after about twelve months of testing, rig work and PID tuning.
DemonstratedAeronexus dashboard: live telemetry, live PID changes, saved gains and 3D magnetometer calibration.
DemonstratedCustom two-joystick transmitter with a radio link of about 100 m in clear line of sight.
LimitedSustained controlled hover in manual flight is not achieved yet. Thumb joysticks caused over-correction, so better gimbals are the next step.
LimitedMetal detection works as a first sweep. It finds the rough zone of a magnetic disturbance, not an exact point, depth or shape.
In codeGPS position hold, return-to-launch and waypoint survey missions are written in the firmware. We have not yet published flight results for them.
Needs fixingBattery monitoring: the firmware's reading is fixed at 13.2 V, so the dashboard value is not real and the low-battery failsafe cannot trigger.
Needs dataFormal detection tests, with known objects and measured noise levels in flight, are still to be recorded.
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Your Drone
Access tutorials and open-source code.
Explore step-by-step guides and project resources. This code opens our GitHub repository.
