Looks like no one posted this yet. Good to see some innovation and improvements from HK
Improvements:
1) 100uf cap in Vcc and 10uf tantalum capacitor added to stop 3.3v bad gyro health issues
2) Replacement of the (not used/redundant) 1.0mm 6p GPS port with df13-4P I2C external compass port, putting the GPS and external compass ports next to each other, making for easier connections.
3) Multifunction MUX port added in the old I2C port location, this lets users select an output from the bonding pad (Uart0, Uart2, I2C, OSD “default is OSD”. This new layout makes data transmission more stable with an isolation resistance.
4) 3.3V and 5V Dataflash/Flashrom swapped trace problem corrected to the AT45DB161.
5) External Compass enable/disable jumper added, verses having to cut a trace wire.
Comments
time is to move on to pixhawk. after all lot of hard work has gone into it. with 252MIPS and 168 Mhz we have a lot to look forward to. LIDAR, image processing. object tracking. only pixhawk can provide this.
I believe that if you take a distributed controller model of an UAS, the APM still has a lot to offer. Sure, it can't handle the EKF and image processing and and and.., but it is a known quantity with an increasing number of flight hours experience and with known issues. I think all the fancy stuff should be shovelled off-board from the APM to another high-power processor.
Once the clever algorithms have done their thing, they could feed the aggregated/regressed data back to APM as more Arduino-digestible messages that APM can act upon. When it gets into a tizz, the APM can continue to "fly the plane" (as student manned-aircraft pilots are exhorted and reminded to do.)
So, tell me, why is a Linux super computer guiding an APM a bad architectural model for future development...?
Should we better to wait next PX4 ?
"commit 8710922a02ae9c3dc9ae54121d2c4a1699f262f1
Author: Andrew Tridgell <tridge@samba.org>
Date: Fri Jul 4 13:58:38 2014 +1000
PX4: fixed orientation of internal hmc5883 on FMUv3"
Best not let mine know that either! I have ordered one of these HK 2.7s to see what all the fuss is about though!
Looks cool!
I hope the APM's stay around for a long time to come.
I don't use my Pixhawk much since there isn't an easy way to use the AUX pins as relays for CHDK.
Hey guys i am new to this.
Is HKPilot worked the same as APM2.6(Mission planner)?
If so can you list what i need(Hardware and software) to make this thing work the same with APM 2.6. thank you guys!
If this thing work the same and reliable as the APM 2.6, I will get this.
i wonder if that 10s power module can be used with the pixhawk
3.2 RC3 will be out early next week. 3.2 RC2 has been out for months in beta, and is very solid (we don't fly anything else)
But Chris says it's ok, so I'll still with it for now.
As long as 3.2 and the splined waypoints works on APM, I'll be doing a cool demo at the end of the month, on just how good APM+arducopter still is.
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