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APM Oil Pan!

Posted by Jordi Muñoz on March 1, 2010 at 2:30am

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!!



Tags: apm, oil, pan, shield
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  • Admin
    Morli March 1, 2010 at 6:14pm
    one too many for a poor DIY droner I guess :)
  • Admin
    Morli March 1, 2010 at 5:46pm
    & what is just below push button just above BM06B . , might some points for someone :)
    @ you are welcome Freddy ( sorry for typo above)
  • Admin
    Morli March 1, 2010 at 5:24pm
    I am imagining but The whole package would look beautiful with APM on top of it and the every thing inside nice little enclosure would complete the dressing too :))) , Can't wait to see the whole thing.
    @ Feddy, what edge switch and what goes below the voltage divider? just asking.
  • John C. March 1, 2010 at 5:01pm
    dang....solder-wick time.
  • Freddy Gauss March 1, 2010 at 3:16pm
    Those relays are a nice find Jordi! You're right about being hard to find, out of the four distributors that I usually use, only Newark had them.

    I think I figured out what the group of small parts on the bottom left is, here's my updated diagram.

    apmcomalguess6.png


    Correction to my previous guess:
    - The set of 6 pairs of components on the bottom left are voltage dividers, right?

    Thanks for the image processing Morli. I use Dia to add the lables and arrows and it's pretty bad at image editing (it's not really meant for it).
  • Admin
    Morli March 1, 2010 at 2:53pm
    think logger may be
  • tycinis March 1, 2010 at 2:51pm
    the missing component from the spark fun rockets is a G Force sensors ?
  • Admin
    Morli March 1, 2010 at 2:50pm
    nope , underneath APM, John , BTW OilPan is called as OilSump too.
  • Riccardo Kuebler March 1, 2010 at 2:48pm
    Better said "rocker cover", then :) ?

    Ric
  • John C. March 1, 2010 at 2:45pm
    So when I think Oil Pan, I think "underneath".

    It appears that this board is still designed to mount on top of the APM, right?

    Thanks!
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