mibu's blog

Most of my spare time I spend with the development of Quadrocopters. About 1year ago I started a new project together with some other guys. It's called UAVP-NG. We have quite many targets for the future, actually too much to list all of them here - at least for the moment.

Since the beginning of this year we are airborne. That means we fulfilled our main target:)

Currently we are flying the first hardware revision. As usual, while doing new stuff, we found a couple of things to improve during the software development phase. For that reason we decided to start work on a 2nd hardware revision.
Two of my co-members are currently busy with finalizing the PCB routing of the sensor board and ARM7 flight controller. The new hardware will also make use of 2nd processor. Its job will be the handling of 2 or even 3 RC receivers to allow diversity, the control of up to 5 servos and maybe sending out IR-commands to fire a digital camera.
The picture below shows a prototype which I will use to write the necessary software before the new PCBs are ready. It only consists the parts needed for the functions described. The processor will later communicate via I2C with the main-processor.

I will let you know as soon as it is alive:)

This is this first entry of my own blog. In future I will blog here the things and pieces I do in my spare time. Let's see, maybe it's interesting for someone...