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DroTek releases DroPix flight controller

Posted by sixtimesseven on July 25, 2014 at 4:00am

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Just received the newsletter that DroTek is finally ready to release it`s Pixhawk compatible flight controller made in France! So no more NSA style regulation from our "friends" and no more DF-13 connectors ;-) They release a hole bunch of modules as well, for example a neo-7 GPS... 

More information available on their page and here. 

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  • sixtimesseven December 12, 2014 at 6:52pm

    Well, they published some schematics on their page, but no eagle files / CAD drawings... 

    So design files yes, PCB files NO.

    Maybe somone from 3Dr pushes them again?

  • Matthias Badaire October 2, 2014 at 4:29pm

    Did they publish it since ?

  • Developer
    Craig Elder July 31, 2014 at 1:03pm

    Just FYI, I have contacted Drotek and received a positive response from them about publishing their design files and keeping Pixhawk Open Source.

    ---------- Forwarded message ----------
    From: Jerome Perin <contact@drotek.fr>
    Date: Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 1:22 AM
    Subject: Re: [DroTek] Customer message from contact form [no_sync]
    To: Craig@3drobotics.com


    Hi Craig,
    Yes for sure we will publish the schematics very soon. We had a lot of works since 2 weeks and my team is in holiday.
    In addition, we share the same philosophy that is open source. This is also the reason why all our projects are open source.
    Thanks for your understanding and have a good day.


    Cdt  / Best regards,

    Jerome Perin
    (Founder/CEO)


    DroTek
    Z.A. du ruisseau (Ligounaout)
    Route de Folcarde
    31290 Avignonet-Lauragais


    2014-07-30 23:03 GMT+02:00 <Craig@3drobotics.com>:

    DroTek
     
    Message from a DroTek customer
     
    Customer e-mail address: Craig@3DRobotics.com 

    Customer message: Please note the licence on the PX4 autopilot that is the source for the DroPix flight controller
    https://github.com/PX4/Hardware

    PX4 Hardware designs

    Website at: http://pixhawk.ethz.ch/px4/

    PX4 is an open hardware design, following the OSHW 1.1 definition licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) license.

    Pull requests for relevant fixes are very welcome.

    Design files are EAGLE CAD files (can be viewed with the free version) www.cadsoftusa.com/

    And BOM management is performed using Bob Starr's BOM-EX plugin: http://www.bobstarr.net/downloads.shtml

    UNLESS OTHERWISE MUTUALLY AGREED TO BY THE PARTIES IN WRITING, LICENSOR OFFERS THE WORK AS-IS AND MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND CONCERNING THE WORK, EXPRESS, IMPLIED, STATUTORY OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, WARRANTIES OF TITLE, MERCHANTIBILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NONINFRINGEMENT, OR THE ABSENCE OF LATENT OR OTHER DEFECTS, ACCURACY, OR THE PRESENCE OF ABSENCE OF ERRORS, WHETHER OR NOT DISCOVERABLE. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES, SO SUCH EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT WILL LICENSOR BE LIABLE TO YOU ON ANY LEGAL THEORY FOR ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THIS LICENSE OR THE USE OF THE WORK, EVEN IF LICENSOR HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/


    You are currently in violation of the license. You must publish your design files and PCB files.

    Please respond to Lorenz Meier lomeier@inf.ethz.ch and Craig Elder Craig@3DRobotics.com
     
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  • MR60
    Hugues July 28, 2014 at 11:24pm

    @William,Swift, yes it is a pixhawk board, running all of the APM code.

  • William Davidson July 28, 2014 at 6:06pm
    Did anyone get an answer on the bolt pattern? Does it match the gps like the VR Brain?

    Also will it directly take the pixhawk firmware/ operate just like a 3DR Pixhawk?
  • Suryana Putra July 28, 2014 at 5:33pm
    i think this one is on my list now (cancelled order Pixhawk from RMRC). Once considering to buy a Pixhack from Chinesse vendor (it small size too) but no more chinesse clone.
  • MR60
    Hugues July 28, 2014 at 9:42am

    This board is good news for European buyers: not only do we get rod of df13 connectors, we gain space (smaller than the 3DR model), it integrates the zener diode protection for powering via the PIns rail, we get rid of high delivery costs from US or Asia, we get rid of custom fees, we get rid of VAT as an intra European corporation.

    And it is cheaper too.

  • Martin July 28, 2014 at 5:05am

    I would love a stackable design. I hate the wire mess that APM and Pixhawk create.

    The radio probably shouldn't be soldered to the board because users might want to use their own radios or OSD or ... Maybe there should just be some space left for mounting a radio to the enclosure.

    The power module and GPS should definitely be integrated. A 5 V 10 A DC (servo/general) use power supply would also be nice.

    Anything within reason that reduces the amount of external wires is great in my opinion.

  • Keith Geary July 28, 2014 at 2:21am

    I am close to commisioning a similar board for fixed wing use, I would welcome any suggestions of what to include or not, plus dimensions, connections, etc.

    My thought was to mount the radio module directly onto the board, like Gluonpilot or Sky Circuits do, then use SMA connectors for the GPS and Radio's Antennas. An enclsoure with open ends for servo wires to connect to the 3 pin headers, plus an IP65 enclosure with a molex connector and a wiring harness that has a molex plug and then long servo wires that can be cut to length as required.

  • Andreas Gazis July 26, 2014 at 3:22am

    No DF13? Finally a touch of sanity. Worth checking out just for that.

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