walcht/ezQuadcopter

ezQuadcopter is a hobbyist/educational project that reimplements standard PID flight control logic for low-cost microcontrollers. With only 18 stars and 6 forks over a 4-year lifespan, it lacks any significant community traction or 'data gravity.' The project faces extreme competition from industry-standard open-source flight stacks like Betaflight (for FPV/performance), ArduPilot (for autonomy), and PX4 (for commercial/industrial use), all of which offer significantly better hardware support, safety features, and sensor fusion algorithms. While Frontier Labs (OpenAI, etc.) are unlikely to build low-level Arduino firmware, the project is essentially 'pre-displaced' by existing established open-source projects. Its value lies solely as a reference or learning tool for students wanting to understand the 'bare metal' logic of flight stabilization, but it offers no moat or novel technical advantage.