BBBmini Rev. 1.6 wish list

Patrick Poirier July 20, 2016 at 5:51am

Super :-)

I'll get both the LED & Buzzer installed on my new build. Thanks !!

Vinicius Juvinski July 20, 2016 at 5:46am

Hi Patrick,

I create a topic about led support, I sent the PR yesterday - I just need to fix some git comments but is working :) I will post a video.

Patrick Poirier July 19, 2016 at 6:30pm

Cool!!
Thanks for your efforts on upgrading the BBBMini Vinicius :-)

Vinicius Juvinski July 19, 2016 at 3:35pm

Hi Patrick

I'm working on led status, I will test today and post the results.

About shutdown pin, on beaglebone you dont need all this effort, you just need the pin9 be attached to a push button connected to ground. When you push the button, the beaglebone will start soft shutdown.

Patrick Poirier July 19, 2016 at 1:16pm

Some other cool add-ons:

- I know that the WS2812 will be implemented but it might be interesting to add a STATUS LEDs so you Know (and not Guess) when its ARMED ....

- Clean Shutdown Button (ITaken from WifiBroadcast - This is why it is referring to a RPI ):

A simple way to do so is to connect a pushbutton with one leg to the raspberry GPIO pin header #22 (which is gpio no. 25) and the other leg to 3.3V and also a resistor > 1k between the GPIO and GND. Then you can install the following scripts from the repository: cd #go into home directory cd wifibroadcast_fpv_scripts sudo cp init.d/shutdown /etc/init.d sudo update-rc.d shutdown start. Now a button press for at least a second should bring the system to halt and you can safely remove the power.

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Linus July 18, 2016 at 5:51am

I like the low profile connectors :)

How about adding a imu heater ?

Cheers

Linus

Patrick Poirier July 15, 2016 at 4:45am

Some additional mods

A) Lowering the modules = Changing connector type can help getting a lower profile (5mm).

Please note that these are the 4 ports unidirectionnal level shifter ( less than 1$ at ALIEXPRESS) that could be used as PWM drivers.

B) Optimization of the rear end connection

Reduce the number of PWM channels to 1- 6 and move on connector 7-12 these IO:

PPM-In

Buzzer

Curr-Volt

Airspeed

I2C (3rd)

C) CANBUS == Please ask if ANYONE is using it

You could easily use this space for the bidirectionnal level shifter == Adafruit TXB0108

Anemos Technologies July 14, 2016 at 11:29pm

what about the rfm23bp support ? we are ready to make the driver for it

Vinicius Juvinski July 14, 2016 at 10:17am

Hi all,

the ESP I think is an interest ideia - just the 3.3 volts and current I having trouble on in.

I'm working in a simple 3 leds as apm 2.X has ( power, status and GPS state) - in case of someone doesn't have WS2812.

Another issue is maybe some arrangement on the board to be more easy do put BBBMini in a case - there is no roles on the board and it is not possible to use a screw fixing a top case to beaglebone roles and a bottom case.

BTW, I create a simple support for the secundary IMU, were I can publish this ?

regards

JB July 14, 2016 at 9:54am

Pi pinout? ;-)

I would really like to see a compact Pi Zero derivative using these:

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/191736126715

and this:

http://www.drotek.com/shop/en/home/466-imu-10dof-mpu9250-ms5611.html

Dunno how many people would be interested, but the Pi Zero is more readily available now at least. Ideally a $4 STM32 ARM board would be used for PWM instead maybe like this one: http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/172154620150

What that would be interesting for both Pi and Bone is a place to mount a HopeRF module (for telemetry) or a ESP 8266, or even better the new ESP32. In fact the new ESP32 could potentially replace the ARM...and maybe even the BBB/PI and run ardupilot code directly on a $4 chip! ;-)

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