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A detailed look at Pixracer

Posted by PX4 on January 16, 2016 at 10:00am

The video below (enable audio!) shows a detailed overview of the new Pixracer flight controller.

It is the 4th generation of the Pixhawk flight controller family (make: FMUv4) and like the first generations designed by the Pixhawk Open Hardware team in collaboration with an international dev team. It supports the PX4 and APM flight stacks. If you like to try PX4 on it, follow the user guide.

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  • gervais February 21, 2016 at 1:29am

    Looks nice, Swift ! I´ve been thinking about rubber fan mount screws for vibration damping.

    http://www.ebay.de/itm/8Pcs-Silicone-Rubber-Cooling-Fan-Screws-Moun...

    Not ideal, but pretty cheap and there are a lot of different types.

  • Scott W February 9, 2016 at 4:11pm

    It does seem better!  still some issues.  
    I'll talk about it in the 3.3 beta thread.

  • gervais February 9, 2016 at 11:34am

    Well, just try the master of today. Old one used to forget some settings.But well, its alpha.  Arducopter v4 still has quite some flaws and therefore you have to keep on trying. Or move on to PX4 . PX4 stack setup is running fine already.

  • Scott W February 8, 2016 at 10:48am

    I cannot get APM to work with pixracer. 
    I calibrate the compass.  I can look at the parameters in the parameter list in either QGC or MP, and they are there....
    But it keeps telling me the compass is not calibrated.   And sometimes, after rebooting, the offsets are actually all gone and back to 0.  But, not always!! 

    Should 3.4 alpha be working, or is this just an issue w/ using the alpha software? 
    I'm trying to determine if my board is bad, or if it's a software issue. 

    And what's strange (to me w/ my lack of info) is that it's only the magnetometer and accelerometer info that gets reset... it remembers my RC config and tuning, etc.  Does that get saved in a different location, or what is up with that?

  • gervais February 8, 2016 at 3:24am

    Depends. Check your hardware manager:

    3702179857?profile=originalMine is COM 33, but that depends on your PC. Btw., I´m not sure if its possible to load Arducopter FW with MP already, did not try. It does connect and show PX4Stack values though.

  • gervais February 8, 2016 at 2:34am

    3702179981?profile=originalPixRacer FrSky S.Port

  • gervais February 7, 2016 at 12:11am

    The Pixracer comes with a FrySky Port, no need for a teensy board, but no xperience with that since  I´m using Hott :-(

    3702178701?profile=original3702178875?profile=original

  • Richard Kennedy February 6, 2016 at 3:30pm

    Does this board support direct connection to Frsky X8R smart port for telemetry without the need for the teasny board? If so does one need to configure that in the parameters? Thx

  • Phillip Kocmoud January 28, 2016 at 2:22pm

    Sorry guys, Nick sent out an email to everyone on 1/19/2016. Seems some people did not get it. Gervais, Thank you for posting this.

  • gervais January 28, 2016 at 1:51pm

    Please wire it as shown below :

    3702171680?profile=original

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