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PX4 Autopilot Architecture Bootcamp

Two intensive days, live with an instructor and no more than four other engineers. We go from flight fundamentals to reading and modifying the real PX4 codebase — then fly it.

2days, live
2–5per cohort
9sessions
$1,490per seat
See the 2-day plan
Live session · Day 1
00:42:10
Tomás R. · host
You
Priya N.
Marcus L.
Screen share: PX4 modules
Tomás is walking through commander/
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Real-time, not recorded
Every minute is live. Ask, share your screen, and get unblocked on the spot.
Four peers, max
A cohort of 2–5 keeps it a working room — the instructor sees everyone.
You fly it
Day two ends on real hardware — your build flying, not a slide about it.
The 2-day plan

From aerodynamics to onboard flight

Day one grounds you in the physics and systems a flight stack sits on. Day two is all PX4 — architecture, tooling, internals, and a real flight to close it out.

Day 1
Foundations
~6h
01
Drone flight license review
Regulatory landscape, license categories, and what you can legally fly and where.
45m
02
Flight & aerodynamics 101
Lift, thrust, drag and torque — how a multirotor actually stays in the air.
75m
03
Control theory
PID, cascaded loops and the attitude/position control stack drones run on.
90m
04
Distributed computing + ROS2
Nodes, topics, DDS and how ROS2 talks to an onboard flight computer.
90m
Day 2
PX4 deep dive
~6h
01
PX4 autopilot architecture overview
The full picture — uORB, the module graph, and how a command reaches a motor.
75m
02
QGroundControl (QGC)
Ground station setup, parameters, flight modes and telemetry in practice.
45m
03
PX4 work queue
Scheduling model — how tasks and drivers run cooperatively without an RTOS thread each.
60m
04
PX4 modules
Read and modify real modules: commander, navigator, and the estimator.
75m
05
Onboard flight
Push your build to real hardware and fly it — closing the loop end to end.
75m
How it runs

A workshop, not a webinar

Live on Zoom / Meet
Two full days, camera-on, screen sharing both ways. Recordings shared after.
2–5 engineers
Intentionally tiny. Enough for peer discussion, small enough for real attention.
Hands-on the codebase
You build PX4, browse modules, and modify real source alongside the instructor.
Onboard flight finale
Flash to hardware and fly — the loop from architecture to airborne, closed live.
Who this is for
Engineers who can read C++ and want to understand a real flight stack from the inside.
Robotics / ROS2 developers moving into UAV autopilot work.
Anyone who has watched PX4 tutorials but still can’t navigate the codebase confidently.
Before you join
Comfortable reading C++ and using git and the command line.
A laptop that can build PX4 (macOS, Linux, or WSL2 on Windows).
Basic ROS2 familiarity helps but isn’t required — we cover the essentials on Day 1.
Live 2-day bootcamp

PX4 Autopilot Architecture

Two full live days with a working UAV engineer
All 9 sessions — fundamentals through onboard flight
Hands-on PX4 build, module walkthrough & QGC setup
Session recordings and slides to keep
Onboard flight on supervised hardware
$1,490per seat
Format2 days · live online
Cohort size2–5 engineers
PlatformZoom / Google Meet
Full refund up to 7 days before start

Questions

Two days from now, you'll read PX4 like your own code.

Small cohort, real instructor, real flight. Seats are limited to five.