MinimoSD isn't plug and play by any mean, and when you succeeded in having an APM working with telemetry and GPS, then you just do not want to take the risk to fry anything. The how-to procedure is nothing but frightening.
Is there any PnP OSD you may recommend for the APM ?
Thank you
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Thank you very much for your explanation.
Believe me, the APM forced me to learn a million things, including soldering, spending hundreds of hours reading the non-existing manual, but also swearing in different languages :-)
I have already fried 2 APM out of 3 (I did not know that you should not connect or disconnect servos while APM is switched on or you blow a regulator. You only find out when it happened to you), one GPS (new GPS and old GPS have the red power cable inverted), one I2C, and of course I ripped a few GPS and compass DF-13 connections, etc...
My last alive APM has its barometer cooked for some reasons, all classic known solutions had already been tried.
So even when you do everything right, then some components are not reliable. Do you want to talk about the power brick ? ;-)
In the end it gets MUCH cheaper to purchase plug and play stuff. At least for me. So i really do not mind spending another 100 dollars if it saves me shipping costs, pain and sweat, a few components, and time.
I want to spend my free time flying, not sweating/swearing/paying... You know what I mean.
To stay on a positive tone, I would definitely purchase the couple APM + minimOSD if it was becoming plug-and-play.