The new SMD board is the smaller one on the right of the picture above, shown with the previous through-hole BlimpDuino board for comparison. As you can see, it's about 30% smaller. As noted in the earlier post, it has several significant improvements over the previous board, including:
- Two dedicated RC channel input ports, so you can easily fly in RC mode (for testing) or autonomous mode.
- A new power supply that can handle anything from 3V to 18v and output both 3.3v and 5v. This will allow you a range of battery options, from 2 or 4 AAAs (cheap) to a 7.4v Li-Po (expensive).
- Includes a port for a servo, for the vectoring thruster
- Includes ports for a Bluetooth wireless module and a magnetometer (compass)
Here's the bottom view of the two boards (new one is on the bottom):
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