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Ardu Hardware Roadmap

Started this discussion. Last reply by Chris Anderson May 25, 2011. 9 Replies

In reference to the comments in "DIY Drones team at Maker Faire" posting, I will start a new discussion about the future of Ardu Hardware Development.I think it is time for a more powerfull processor…Continue

 

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ThomasB commented on Adric Landman's blog post Cat Quadcopter
"That's maybe the right video for showing my cat. It always want's to catch my NanoCopter. Next time it will think twice."
15 hours ago
ThomasB commented on emile's blog post Add a backup battery on the MTK GPS module.
"Thanks for this usefull informations/pics  :)"
Thursday
ThomasB replied to Daniel Gru's discussion Wo fliegt ihr? in the group German Ardu-Group
"Hallo Sebastian, Sollten wir auf jeden Fall mal tun. Das Paparazzi Board würde mich auch interessieren, hab noch keins live gesehen (welches hast du denn?). Ich könnte sogar noch ein paar 'Mitflieger' anbieten. In Westerstede hab…"
May 11
ThomasB replied to Daniel Gru's discussion Wo fliegt ihr? in the group German Ardu-Group
"Ich hab etwas bei der Portierung der APM Software vom ATMEGA zum STM32F1 geholfen. Hauptsächlich aber bei den C++ Libraries, in den Arduino Code hab ich mich noch nicht so reingetan."
May 10
ThomasB replied to Daniel Gru's discussion Wo fliegt ihr? in the group German Ardu-Group
"Und dann haben wir noch einen aus dem Nord-Westen (Westerstede bei Oldenburg) APM 1.4, MP32 V1+V4, Open Pilot CC Board, MK Hexa "
May 9
ThomasB commented on Earl's blog post Er9x transmitter now with MavLink
"@Earl Nice project. Will definitely use/test it when it's ready "
Mar 19
ThomasB commented on trappy's blog post California Coast (TBS @ USA Riad Trip 9/13)
"Nice video scenes, awesome slowmotion, great HD quality  :)"
Mar 14
ThomasB commented on Bill Nesbitt's blog post AutoQuad ESC32 v1r5
"ok, that's HIGH !  :) The Open BLDC project has maybe so much power, but it seems that it was stopped a year ago http://open-bldc.org/wiki/V0.3"
Mar 13
ThomasB commented on Bill Nesbitt's blog post AutoQuad ESC32 v1r5
"Sorry, I've no detailed informations about Bill's ESC production state (or at least if it's planed) I've only the info about his other project, the autoquad hardware which goes very slow, but they have enough gyros for a lot of…"
Mar 13
ThomasB commented on Bill Nesbitt's blog post AutoQuad ESC32 v1r5
"With PWM 800 Hz is possible too (with non RC standard length). One main advantage for I2C is that you can get Informations back (anish named it 'feedback'). So it possible to read values for current consumtion and motor speed. I2C has the…"
Mar 13
ThomasB commented on Chris Anderson's blog post APM 2 update -- Ordering reopened!
"Very interesting. This discussion goes in a similar direction like at other Projects which are using the MPU 6000. All this people can't wait  :) That's real life.. buying new electronic components is like a game, always with a risk…"
Feb 28
ThomasB commented on trappy's blog post Monument Valley (TBS @ USA Road Trip)
"Great!  really amazing pictures..  "
Feb 27
ThomasB replied to Adam Crain's discussion ARM based Arduino
"If you want a ArduPilot Cortex Board with FPU you have to ask Roberto Navoni. His MP32V3 board has a CortexM4 (STM32F4) and the MPU6000 on it  :) "
Feb 25
ThomasB commented on Paul's blog post New Robbe quadcopter
"By the way.. looking at the picture... I think we need definitely more female quadrocopter pilots here !   :)"
Feb 13
ThomasB commented on Chris Anderson's blog post ArduPilot 2012 Software Roadmap
"Sounds like a good roadmap. More structure in the code is really needed due to the grown complexity. "
Jan 16
ThomasB commented on Radoslaw Kornicki's blog post Android based UAV controller is coming!!!
"Looks good!  Very nice project."
Jan 15

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Try to build my own hardware for a quad,
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Comment Wall (4 comments)

At 6:01pm on June 12, 2011, Juan Gomez said…
Hi Thomas,

Here is the Schematic of my board. I hope it will be helpful for you.
It will be interesting to hear some comment of you about the schematic.

Regards.
At 10:39am on June 16, 2011, Juan Gomez said…
Hi Thomas,

Thanks for the advices, I will improve this on the next version! =)
it looks more familiar to me  the topology that is in the first link.in the second link, it looks more simple but... I never saw that kind of topology.
Tell me... which schematic. are you going to base your design?

Using JTAG without an Emulator, it's painful. that it true! 
I'm using the Code Composer Studio IDE from Texas Instruments, it's based on Eclipse too.

Regards.
At 11:30am on June 16, 2011, ThomasB said…

Hi Juan,

 

Yes, the second sheet is .. mmhh.. very compact  :)

It is the sheet of the flightcontrol of Mikrokopter (www.mikrokopter.de). An 8 bit cpu based system which works very well/stable. That's why I took this as example.

My starting point of development was the project of Bill Nesbitt (http://www.diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/autoquad-ver-5) which is based on a STM32F103. After porting the main board, I became aware of the project of Roberto Navoni which is based on the same cpu series. He took some existing software together, improved them, and now you can run the ardupirates ng software on it. (http://www.virtualrobotix.com/page/multipilot32-1)

So now I'm playing with this cpu board and the standard oilpan imu, works well (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT4BpqDvx-w). So the next step might be to port the sensor board of autoquad v5 for the MP32.

So I try to get (step by step) familiar with all the needed sensor,cpu programming and filter stuff :)

By the way, why you decided to use the texas cpu? Working with it before?

 

regards 

Thomas

At 7:33am on October 6, 2011, Oliver said…

Gutes Projekt! Die Antwort habe ich Dir gleich in Deinem Board geschrieben. 

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