Driver first
Assist the line without disconnecting the driver from the car.
Open source RC drift control
Built in the car.
Proven on the track.
A transparent, deeply tunable drift gyro built around real driving, blackbox data, and an open control system you can inspect, change, and improve.
250/333 HzSelectable control loop
6-axisMotion telemetry
OnboardTouch tuning and profiles
OpenFirmware, hardware, and data
01 / THE PROJECT
No mystery box
A drift gyro you can actually understand.
OpenDrift mixes driver steering with measured yaw correction, then exposes the entire process. Tune it from the Waveshare board's touchscreen or a browser, save different surface profiles, and record the controller’s behaviour instead of guessing what the car is doing.
Data over folklore
Use synchronized steering, throttle, motion, and correction logs to make changes with evidence.
Built in public
Open firmware and documentation make every assumption available for review.
Control without compromise
Everything needed to build a tune.
Start from a stable baseline, shape the response, save it for the surface, then use logs to find what feel alone cannot explain.
Purpose-built drift control
Continuous yaw prediction, countersteer assistance, drift memory, throttle-informed transient handling, and active steering limits run inside a focused selectable-rate controller.
Tune at the car
The touch interface keeps the important controls on the chassis. Wi-Fi configuration adds deeper setup and profile creation without installing an app.
Surface profiles
Keep separate setups for P-tile, asphalt, carpet, or changing chassis configurations and switch without rebuilding a tune.
Blackbox logging
Capture yaw, driver input, throttle, prediction, correction, chassis motion, and controller state in one downloadable CSV.
Open Beta
CRSF + EdgeTX
High-rate receiver input, active-neutral failsafes, bidirectional tuning, configurable Channel 3 gain range, synchronized physical servo endpoints, and assignable accessory outputs are available on Waveshare AMOLED V1 and V2.
02 / HARDWARE
One final platform
Designed around the Waveshare AMOLED board.
The Waveshare ESP32-S3 Touch AMOLED 1.64 board is the final OpenDrift target: compact, fast, readable, and capable of running control, UI, wireless configuration, and logging on one board.
OPENDRIFT
Primary hardware
Waveshare AMOLED 1.64
- Waveshare 280 × 456 AMOLED touchscreen
- ESP32-S3 with onboard IMU
- Current UI and feature target
OD
Legacy hardware
Waveshare Round 1.28
Kept available for existing builds with matching PWM and CRSF controller features.
From browser to track
Flash. Configure. Drive. Learn.
Install
Flash a complete factory image from Chrome or Edge. No compiler, account, or command line.
Set up
Connect to the onboard Wi-Fi, calibrate steering, verify orientation, and begin with the documented baseline.
Tune
Adjust the smallest useful set of controls and save the result as a surface profile.
Validate
Download blackbox data when the car does something that feel alone cannot explain.
Open means open
Build it. Break it. Make it better.
Firmware, tuning documentation, hardware work, and the browser installer live in the public repository.