ArduPilot Shield Demo
I few days ago i received the first prototypes of the Ardupilot Shield. Right now they don't have silkscreen to reduce the prototyping costs, but the commercial version will do..
Main goals:
-On board 3.3V power regulator.
-Disable the GPS before uploading new firmware automatically.
-A lot of pins headers to easily attach sensors with power supply included.
-Special connector for 3.3V GPS modules (including the TTL conversion).
-Pressure sensor, with low pass filtering, for AirSpeed...
-External reset button.
-Mirrored status LED,s...
-Optional power divider (analog 5) to measure battery level.
The cost without the sensor will be around $20 dlls at beginning, soon if i order bigger batch's i can reduce the price.
My ideas is to make 100 units without the pressure sensor, and another 100's with the pressure sensor (around $30 dlls price tag)... Stay tuned for more news..
You can give a look to the diagram here:
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Comment by Reto on April 23, 2009 at 2:18pm - Very promising, Jordi! Great job to add this to the project. Is it going to be sold through Sparkfun too?
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Comment by Jordi Muñoz on April 23, 2009 at 2:48pm -
Hello Reto,
The idea is to setup an small online shop (e-commerce) to distribute all the sensors, chips and boards, easily and around world (like CH), only ardupilots boards will sold by SF.
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Comment by Thomas J Coyle III on April 23, 2009 at 3:20pm -
Jordi,
Nice work. Count me in for one of the shield boards.
Regards,
TCIII
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Comment by Jordi Muñoz on April 23, 2009 at 3:23pm
- Thank you!
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Comment by Jhon on April 23, 2009 at 4:01pm -
nice!
no way to make the pack more flat?
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Comment by Jordi Muñoz on April 23, 2009 at 4:03pm
- pack?
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Comment by Torin Segstro on April 23, 2009 at 4:09pm - Brilliant... Now I can stop making the one I was working on. Can't wait for this little addition.
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Comment by Jhon on April 23, 2009 at 4:26pm
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well when i say pack i mean: shell + ardupilot.
both pcb's alone are quite flat, but when both are joined...
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me refiero a que las dos placas juntas forman un conjunto muy grueso, no hay forma de que ambas placas queden mas juntas creando un pack mas fino? gracias ^^
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Comment by Jack Crossfire on April 23, 2009 at 4:58pm - Guess old $parky isn't the free lunch that he's made out to be. No-one's ever mentioned it, but he must take a big chunk of the profits. Eventually all our bosses will give us reasons to start our own online businesses & then the question becomes how much you will make when there are 500 million stores selling LED shield.
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Comment by Jordi Muñoz on April 23, 2009 at 5:05pm
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haaa ok, you mean keep a low profile, smaller, less high?... Yes you can do it, if you use long gold pins and cut them exactly in the right size you can maybe save more than 75% of the space, but you will be unable to remove the shield. You welcome!
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aaah ok, te refieres a mantener un perfil bajo, mas pequenio, menos alto? Si puedes hacerlo, si utilizas pines dorados largos y los cortas exactamente a la medida podrias ahorrarte un 75% del espacio requerido, pero no podras remover la placa superior. De nada!
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