APM Oil Pan!

Is 2:22AM (when i started writing this) and i can't sleep, so i decided to write this post.

I been working "hard" and the fastest i can to finish this thing, theres only one step remaining in order to start the "mass" production of this board.

This is how the last step will be done:

-A unique assembled board will be shipped from California to Spain.

-Then Jose Julio in Spain will open his "Surprise Board" and make us the great favor to all of us of checking the board integrity and the harmony of all the components on it (thanks in advance JJ).

-That includes checking some new components i can't mention right now.

-If Jose Julio says 'Si", then i will start the mass production.

By now SparkFun is straggling trying to supply all the components and test bed for APM. It will be released soon.

The board is kinda of big right now. This board will be called the "huge" version. When the code becomes very mature i will create a an smaller version of the APM and APM Oil Pan without the multiplexor on the APM and without the bulky FTDI chip on the APM Oil Pan, so i can save 30% of the size. This one will be called ArduPilotMega "In my way" version. ;-)

Oil pan stands for the old shield name. The difference is that the shield goes into the bottom of the ArduPilotMega board.

~~I decided to let the community guess the rest of the specs for ArduPilotMega Oil Pan, because write stuff in English make me drowsy. The best guesser will receive a $50 certificate. ;-)~~

Come 2:56AM!!

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Freddy Gauss March 1, 2010 at 6:45am

I may be late to the game, but here's my guess
3D Robotics

Chris Anderson March 1, 2010 at 6:42am

Note that the size of this shield is determined not so much by its own components but by the Ardupilot mainboard, which it fits on. And that's big because it's using the Atmega1280, which has a TON of I/O! There's a reason it's called "mega" ;-)

BTW, it's not as big as you may think. Here it is between the current ArduPilot board, which is the smallest on the market, and the UAVDevBoard:
Vicente March 1, 2010 at 6:35am

I didn’t saw Chris Anderson comment, but with his clue what is in the bottom left is the USB port.
Vicente March 1, 2010 at 6:19am

Hi Jordi,

Nice board! As you said quite big…

Here my guess for the oil pan:
-FTDI chip (top-left)
-Multiplexor (bottom-left)
-Differential Pressure Sensor MPXV5004DP (top-right)
-Gyro LPR530AL for Pitch and Roll (center)
-Gyro LPY530AL for yaw (center)
-adxl335 accelerometer (bottom-center)
-Analog to digital (SPI) converter (right of Gyros)
-Probably an SPI Magnetometer (right of Analog converter)
-Reset or home PB (right)
-GPS Connector (bottom-right)
-Serial port connector (top-left)
-Some led’s.
-Power regulator (left)
-Data logger port and voltage lever converter (bottom-left)

Regards,
Vicente A.
3D Robotics

Chris Anderson March 1, 2010 at 6:13am

Just to translate for those who may be confused: "APM" = ArduPilot Mega. "Oil Pan" = Jordi's code name for the ArduPilot Mega shield, which included the IMU and other sensors, along with the USB port.
Curt Olson March 1, 2010 at 4:32am

I can see it has a microphone, probably for accepting voice commands. Pretty slick Jordi, now we'll be able to shout at our UAS from the ground and have it respond!
Riccardo Kuebler March 1, 2010 at 3:57am

Hi Jordi,

very nice idea.

Does it go further with UDB Oilpan too ?

Best regards,

Ric

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