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DIYDrones Store: New Products Available!

Posted by Jordi Muñoz on June 25, 2009 at 8:00pm
Hello everybody. I have some news here:1.-The shipping system right now is a nightmare for everybody (including me). Finally i found a good solution that will let me ship overseas for less than 5 dlls (under 4 oz). Yes i will accept First Class Mail soon, YEAHHH!!! It will be ready in two weeks.2.- The Infrared boards arrived, but i still waiting for some components in order to start the fabrication. Please be patient.3.- I ran out of ArduShield Kits!!!! Guys.. Let me breath! Tomorrow the new parts should arrive, sorry about that.Now lets talk about the new products:Ok ArduStation is now stocked, so you can order today and i will ship the same day (before 3pm California, Sun, Beach, Pacific time or 10pm Zulu time). You can buy it here.

As i already mentioned this in another post, I'm about to release the new ArduLogger in collaboration with Raúl Helvia and Eduardo Garcia (the Satellite guy) from Spain. Its an Atmega328@8Mhz and you can use it to data log the 6 analogs channels or data coming from the serial port:

(If you look carefully the picture, you will see my new Open Source ServoSwitch).And yeah! I finally entered to the gyro market. My goal is to one day offer everything you will need to build your own UAV and have an old school slogan like: "The official UAV store" or maybe "Satisfying all your UAV needs since 2009", LOL:

I'm offering right now the smallest LISY300AL breakout board. Same price as SparkFun and free shipping world wide (web?):

And for limited time i will offer the ultimate 6 degrees of freedom, super tiny IMU that can be adapted to your system very easily:

(Ardupilot just as size reference). Featuring the ADXL330 3g accelerometer and the famous LISY300AL with 300deg/sec. The best part is that you can upgrade it. You can choose between 4, 5 and 6 degrees of freedom by just soldering the gyros you need (without buffering underrun your Paypal account) and because the main board is vertical you can solder it to your current home made autopilot PCB or even in a breadboard!This pic shows with arrows the gyros you will need depending the configuration you may want:

Another pic of the back:

You can buy the IMU here, and you can buy the extra gyros from here.The diagrams and schematics of the boards:gyro_lisy_single_sch.pdfgyro_lisy_single_brd.pdfgyro_lisy_mother_sch.pdfgyro_lisy_mother_brd.pdfThanks for you support and for reading this!
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  • Developer
    Jordi Muñoz August 6, 2009 at 10:07am
    Viky
    The schematics of all the products i have are available for download in the store.
  • Vikram August 6, 2009 at 1:55am
    hey jordi can you tell me whats the attenuator you r using to connect battery +ve to analog 5 pin. can you send me circuit of that
  • Developer
    Jordi Muñoz July 1, 2009 at 8:15pm
    Earl, I do offer a sample program, is linked in the product page. Or what do you mean?
  • Developer
    Jordi Muñoz July 1, 2009 at 8:15pm
    Thomas, don't worry is not a big deal. Just connect the FTDI cable or the SF module and you don't have to connect ardustation to the battery.
  • Admin
    Thomas J Coyle III July 1, 2009 at 5:20pm
    Hey Earl,

    I know that this is slightly off topic, but since you mentioned that you have built and programmed the ArduStation I would like you to comment on the following:

    I was about ready to program the ArduStation through the FTDI connector, but I noticed on the schematic and through a continuity measurement that the third pin from the right on the ArduStation board FTDI connector is hooked to the +5v on the ArduStation board.

    What is the intent of providing +5v on the FTDI connector if the FTDI connector is powered by the USB connection?

    Is it safe to use either the Sparkfun 3.3v FTDI board or the Ardafruit FTDI cable with +5v on the ArduStation board FTDI power pin (3rd pin from the right)?

    I assume that the ArduStation board is powered up using its own power supply during the programming?

    I have both the Sparkfun 3.3v FTDI board and the Adafruit FTDI cable. I am very tempted to cut the Vcc pin off of the ArduStation FTDI header since it serves no purpose in relation to the operation of the FTDI board/cable.

    Jordi has not responded to this problem yet.

    Regards,
    TCIII
  • Earl July 1, 2009 at 4:42pm
    Hi Jordi,
    I built the ar station. Display and everything seems to work. How about a PC test program to send to the XBee to test the station? I dont have my AP programed yet.
    Earl
  • Jesus June 30, 2009 at 11:53am
    Hi Jordi:
    I mailed to you a private message, please try to anwer it, because I´m going to travel this thursday and I want to buy some things before it.
    Thanks
    Jesús
  • Patrick Mccabe June 30, 2009 at 10:09am
    go to the store page, its the third tab from the left
  • Danilo Marques Figueiredo June 30, 2009 at 9:47am
    Hi Jordi! i want to buy the sistem with xyz axis and expander board for sensors, how I do it?
  • Developer
    Jordi Muñoz June 29, 2009 at 5:16pm
    Danilo Marques, you will need a few things to make your own autopilot:
    -IMU or infrared sensor in order to know your orientation.
    -GPS to know your position.
    -Microcontroller to process the data.
    -Servos, airplane and radio control.
    -Good understanding for C language.
    -Plenty of time and money (depends how careful you are).

    About the code you can barrow a lot of code from us, paparazzi and some google.
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