Post by Deleted on May 5, 2022 19:11:49 GMT
Hey guys! As I have been talking in taildragger’s thread, I am making a VTOL Mini Guinea inspired by Peter Sripol’s Chimera on the Flite Test channel! I initially made the foam body first, but when my software did not work as intended, I ended up stripping it down onto a wood frame so that I could crash with less damage.
After doing some 20+ failed tests with the new wooden frame version I figured I would take matters into my own hands, and modified the code from MultiWii to work, the problem it was having was the two front motors where swapped in the PID loop, resulting in it correcting in the wrong direction, but working on the correct direction when you control it with your TX.
The circuit is VERY simple, just an Arduino Nano and a MPU6050 IMU for checking its attitude.
I soldered it up onto a protoboard, and joined two of them together using screws to sorta make a double layered PCB, the end result was a nice, if big, flight controller:
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After I got the FC working I went ahead and added landing legs and a better servo mount, I used two spare protoboards for supports as they have REALLY good adhesion to hot glue (since they are full of holes.)
F2ACDC37-A97B-42D8-86A3-9AA2B89F339C.jpeg E1914FE2-A96F-4683-9309-92FA0D032A1F.jpeg AA20DA47-B9F9-4830-B683-7DB56327E98E.jpeg
And I feel I made it in true FliteTest spirit! I used two Power Pack A equivalent’s and one Power Pack C equivalent. Just threw it together, and used all of my motors. This is currently my only flying vehicle besides my TinyWhoop but now that I have TriCopter mode working somewhat, I can tune it, then move on to adding working VTOL including putting it back on a Mini Guinea! I am super excited to see how it works!
After doing some 20+ failed tests with the new wooden frame version I figured I would take matters into my own hands, and modified the code from MultiWii to work, the problem it was having was the two front motors where swapped in the PID loop, resulting in it correcting in the wrong direction, but working on the correct direction when you control it with your TX.
The circuit is VERY simple, just an Arduino Nano and a MPU6050 IMU for checking its attitude.
I soldered it up onto a protoboard, and joined two of them together using screws to sorta make a double layered PCB, the end result was a nice, if big, flight controller:
FDF58537-91C3-4231-A550-5229226BA428.jpeg E36D8F79-9B62-48D4-8433-3585BCEF122F.jpeg
After I got the FC working I went ahead and added landing legs and a better servo mount, I used two spare protoboards for supports as they have REALLY good adhesion to hot glue (since they are full of holes.)
F2ACDC37-A97B-42D8-86A3-9AA2B89F339C.jpeg E1914FE2-A96F-4683-9309-92FA0D032A1F.jpeg AA20DA47-B9F9-4830-B683-7DB56327E98E.jpeg
And I feel I made it in true FliteTest spirit! I used two Power Pack A equivalent’s and one Power Pack C equivalent. Just threw it together, and used all of my motors. This is currently my only flying vehicle besides my TinyWhoop but now that I have TriCopter mode working somewhat, I can tune it, then move on to adding working VTOL including putting it back on a Mini Guinea! I am super excited to see how it works!
