After some months of development this is the first flight of ArduPilot32 platform.
Hardware :
- Ardupilot32 pre alpha hw.
- IMU Oilpan.
- Low Cost (6$) standard PWM ESC.
- PPM_SUM receiver.
- Lipo 2200 3S
- Propeller 10
For this flight I using Arducopter 32 NG firmware. This is my porting of original code to Arm 7 Cortex A3 platform. With this micro will be available more power , more flash and ram resources
This space and performances its very good for improve performance of our Drone. The Era of our ARM Drone's Started.
original thread : http://www.virtualrobotix.com/forum/topics/multipilot-20-ap32-building
Regards
Roberto
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The ESC is SP 20 A ESC from Giancod low cost 5.75 Pound
The motor are Robbye Roxy 2734 buy in my old project where i used MK.
The CPU is Multipilot32 based on STM32 micro controller Arm Cortex A3 72 Mhz of clock. Fully compatible with Ardu Pilot Mega pinout and firmware , I'm working on porting .
This is the thread with daily buildlog : http://www.virtualrobotix.com/forum/topics/multipilot-20-ap32-building
The imu was OilPan.
Prop is 10.
Lipo was 2200 mah 3S
Regards
Roberto
Amazing job Roberto. You got the proof of conept with this flight: ARM based APM Finally Ardupilot goes on steroids!
Could you give us more HW specs of our rig?
ESC, motors, props,...
Thank you , this is only the startup of this project ... i think that in future could be a big improvment of Ardu Project using this kind of micro. :)
I need some help on library , expecially on i2c , if there are some STM32 developer that would join us is welcome :)
Regards
Roberto