Righto trend setters…
Time for a Gadgeteer Quad?
I think so and here’s what’s on my menu
Red board: (doesnt exist)
[ul]Power to the Mainboard
Power distribution to the ESC’s
4x 3 pin headers for ESC’s
2x Gadgeteer P sockets for ESC’s to talk to the Main board
Lipo connector[/ul]
Black board - STM Octopus (might already exist :whistle: )
Shameless Cerberus knock off with a 50mm diameter
Blue board (doesnt exist)
AHRS / Radio
[ul]MPU-6000
Tri-Axis angular rate sensor (gyro)
Tri-Axis accelerometer
I2C magnetometer HMC-5883L
Atmega328 running DCM
2x U sockets for AHRS and radio to Octopus[/ul]
Sure its a quad copter, but its powerful and small enough to be almost anything, from a boring old robot controller to the brains in a mini robotic submersible, to fitting inside all sort of flying shapes etc. How many quad copters can you unplug and use in all sorts of applications?
How about using InvenSense’s MPU-9150, with integrated gyro, accelerometer and magnetometer in one tiny I2C package? SparkFun have Eagle files for their own breakout for it here, there are now Arduino sketches showing how to get 9dof sensor fusion from it here.
