Our ArduStation MEGA boards arrived today and I am truly excited to see how they work. Now starts small assembly job for them and then we can start doing testing for those.
Big thanks for Colin for his original ASM work, it's great to see what great minds can create.
New boards looks just awesome. Few connectors are missing but those are quickly soldered. These boards are from the first batch and we have them now small qty in stock. If there are any changes that needs to be made, we will do it and then first production batch will come.
Technical specs:
- MCU: Atmel 2560 with Atmel 8u2 USB "adapter"
- XBee footprint for telemetry with external pins
- IO: Buzzer, Analog, I2C, GPS
- SDCard holder for storage needs
- 128 x 64 pixel Graphics LCD
- 3 x TTL Serial output pins
- 2 x Servo outputs with internal/external power feed
- Encoder port for menus etc use
- Connection for I2C Keyboard
- 4 x LEDs for showing different statues
Jani / jDrones
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Any updates? Pre-orders? I want build this thing!
Looks awesome..
Jani,
How about an update on how things are going with the ArduStation Mega. Do you think that it will be available by Christmas?
Regards,
TCIII
Jani, one thing I'm wondering about is if attaching a keypad to the side would interfere with the USB connector or XBee antenna. I guess this is easier to gauge hands on though.
I agree, the keypad layout doesn't need to be the same as the original. Especially now we have the encoder. I get on well with my JR transmitter that has a line of buttons and navigates with the encoder - http://www.jixhobbies.co.za/images/PCM9XII.jpg
As for the wireless link, I was hoping to play with Melih's OpenBee at some point as it has the XBee footprint and runs on 433Mhz. It would be lovely if there were pads on the board so we can directly solder on the wireless module that Sparkfun carries, which looks pretty good value. Though I understand that you can't add every option and have to draw the line somewhere
And yes we are still looking different ideas for final keyboard models.
Serge, we try to get them on market before Christmas. There are few small changes that we make on board like SDcard holder will be changed for another style and thing like that. Also we might change USB chip to be bigger than what we have.
I was on my way to order the previous generation board today but I might wait a little longer for this one now.
yes LCD panel can be mounted, question more like should we same time mount main PCB and others. There are mount holes on every PCB so mounting can be done.
As said, keyboard will be separate PCB so mounting is to side, top, bottom of LCD is possible. Only shape is still uncertain.
Joystick switch is not bad idea either. I did put my girls already to look few different type joystick buttons for me so let's see what they find.
Most likely there will be 2 different type keyboards for it. Still thinking if I should actually put footprint of HopeRF modules on board too... Thou that might be too much as we can easily connect 3DR/RFD and other modems to board directly on it's telemetry connector.
Patch, I hear you. I think that one is actually not a push to select. I can see how that would be a PITA if done poorly.
@R_Lefebvre; My Toyota 4Runner has a similar design on the climate control; seems like a good idea at first, but after a few "push instead of toggle" moments, you may not like them. My wife's german sedan has a great console switch, like a scroll/select- the scroll motion is more of a lateral slide, than a tilt-to-toggle; quite nice and more intuitive when switching blind, IMHO.
An more affordable alternative
http://www.digikey.ca/scripts/dksearch/dksus.dll?vendor=0&keywo...
Combined 4-way W/scroll and Select
Some have used this one to modify theTurnigy 9X radio
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