Week 6
During week six I disassembled and reassembled the copter to check the circuitry of the speed controllers. I found nothing wrong with the setup and did some more research on the AR 610 receiver. The receiver should be able to control all the motors through the THRO channel and the flight controller. I then downloaded Cleanflight, which is a program similar to baseflight and reprogrammed the flight controller. In Cleanflight i was able to setup and arming sequence, which can be seen in the notebook. This successfully armed the flight controller. I then tested receiver and transmitter independently from Cleanflight and found that I was able to control the motors properly with the transmitter and receiver.
Notebook (PDF)