Tested hardware for BBBMINI

Posted by Mirko Denecke on October 7, 2015 at 12:15pm

This is a list of tested hardware for the BBBMINI. If you have other hardware in use, please let me know, so I can update the list.

RC Receiver

  • FlySky FS-R9B with PPM-Encoder,
  • Frsky X8R, via S.BUS, 5V VCC, R4 = 0 Ohm, R5 = not used (open), latest X8R firmware required
  • Frsky X4RSB, via S.BUS, 5V VCC, R4 = 0 Ohm, R5 = not used (open), latest X4RSB firmware required
  • Frsky D4R-II, via CPPM, 5V VCC, R4 = 0 Ohm, R5 = not used (open)
  • OrangeRX R615X, via CPPM, 5V VCC, R4 = 0 Ohm, R5 = not used (open)
  • OrangeRX R620, via S.BUS, 5V VCC, R4 = 0 Ohm, R5 = not used (open)
  • Spektrum AR7700 PPM, 5V VCC, R4 = 0 Ohm, R5 = not used (open)
  • Spektrum Satellit SPM 9645, 3.3V VCC, R4 = 0 Ohm, R5 = not used (open), has to be bind before use
  • Turnigy 9x 8C V2, 5V VCC with PPM-Encoder (Arduino nano), R4 = 1k Ohm, R5 = 2k Ohm

GPS

  • Drotek Ublox NEO-M8N GPS module, 3.3V VCC, (-B /dev/ttyO5)
  • Hobbyking Ublox NEO-7 GPS module, 5V VCC, (-B /dev/ttyO5)
  • MAX-7Q Ublox Neo-7Q GPS module, 5V VCC, (-B /dev/ttyO5)
  • BeStar BN-800, Ublox M8N GPS Module (clone I think but reports as M8N), 5V VCC (-B /dev/ttyO5)
  • BeStar BN-880, Ublox M8N GPS Module (clone I think but reports as M8N), 5V VCC (-B /dev/ttyO5)
  • Neo 6M GPS module, 3.3 V VCC (-B /dev/ttyO5)

Telemetry

  • 3DR USB-Radio connected to BBB USB port, (-C /dev/ttyUSB0)
  • 3DR UART-Radio connected to UART4, 5V VCC, (-C /dev/ttyO4)
  • Crius Bluetooth Module connected to UART4, 5V VCC, (-C /dev/rttyO4), baudrate must be set to 57600 (AT+BAUD7)

Laser altimeter

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    • Jon > Mike Kelly February 13, 2016 at 12:58pm

      I don't know Mike. I just wanted to see if I could get it to work with the BBBmini and decided to share the information.

      In addition to the above I'm going to add 10k resistors to the EN & GPIO-2 connections.

  • Jiro Hattori February 10, 2016 at 6:58pm

    I have no GPS lock with 3DR GPS LEA6 V1.1, 5.0V nor  3.3V VCC, (-B /dev/ttyO5).

    Is there any experience on this GPS ?

    • Jiro Hattori > Jiro Hattori February 12, 2016 at 3:07am

      Thank you for the inputs. I will dig 3DR-GPS more:-)

    • Jiro Hattori > Jiro Hattori February 12, 2016 at 5:01pm

      It is confirmed that "-B /dev/ttyS5" works with 3DR GPS LEA6H Ver1.1 (3.3V).

      Thanks.

    • Mike Kelly > Jiro Hattori February 11, 2016 at 5:09am

      Does Mission Planner tell you "GPS no fix"? On my BB my serial port was /dev/ttyS5 not tty05. You might check it.

    • Admin
      Thomas J Coyle III > Jiro Hattori February 10, 2016 at 7:12pm

      @Jiro,

      I was able to get the 3DR V1.1 LEA-6 GPS/Compass module to work, but it required the use of a Sparkfun level shifter to mate the 5 vdc I/O of the GPS to the BBBMINI GPS 3.3v I/O.

      Regards,

      TCIII AVD

  • David Leigh January 29, 2016 at 11:27pm

    Hi Mirko,

    Has support for the COMPASS with I2C been considered.  I believe that is required for proper operation.

    Regards

    David

    • Mirko Denecke > David Leigh January 30, 2016 at 2:26am

      Hi Davis,

      you can connect an external compass to P15, should run without any configuration.

      Regard

      Mirko

    • Mike Kelly > Mirko Denecke January 30, 2016 at 5:52am

      I can confirm it works fine with an EBAY M8n 3.3v with HMC5883L.

      http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEO-M8N-High-Precision-GPS-Module-Built-in-...

    • Vinicius Juvinski > Mike Kelly February 17, 2016 at 4:20pm

      Hi,

      I was trying two compass - one MPU-9250 and was fine and working.

      I connect a second compass HMC5883L - with a new gps ublox 8 like yours, but was horrible - Arducopter was with hudge cpu consumption, software was too slow and the problem was this compass. Have you tried with the last release?

      Regards

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