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Fruit Fly Brain Flight Controller

A FlyWire-derived controller points a DJI Tello toward the sky.

README reviewedSource checked Sep 10, 2026
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What’s going on here?

A project for a simulated and DJI Tello flight controller based on FlyWire connectivity, LIF dynamics, optic-flow input, and decoded descending-neuron motor commands.

THE IMPORTANT BIT

Where the wiring ends,
and the model begins.

README performance and flight claims are author-reported; it documents simplified flight physics and an arbitrary left/right proxy in its data.

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