Autonomous bird project

ArduCopter
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I am working on a project to create an autonomous bird/drone which at random time intervals autonomously flies straight up into the air, hovers for a minute and then returns to ground. Would ArduPilot be a good software for this task? I have never used ArduPilot before, how complicated of a task would this be?

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Hello @T_Jennings , welcome to the community.

Yes, that is possible and very simple to do with ArduCopter

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Thanks for the help. Do you have any recommendations on flight controllers which would be suitable for this project? Iā€™m not too fussed about precision just something cheap which can do the job would be best.

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You can find a list of flight controllers in the wiki:
https://ardupilot.org/plane/docs/common-autopilots.html