Here it is! Finally, the PixHawk Fire Cape (PXF) is ready for a wider audience and we've launched a crowdfunding campaign so that everyone can get theirs. We've been iterating through different generations over the last year and with the help of many, we are finally proud to announce the PXF starting at $100.
This board was born out Philip's hands and pushed by members of this community so it's just reasonable to try making it as affordable and accesible as possible. Some technical details:
Sensors
- MPU6000: 3-axis gyroscope, 3-axis accelerometer and temperature sensor.
- MPU9250: 3-axis gyroscope, 3-axis accelerometer, 3-axis magnetometer and temperature sensor
- LSM9DS0: 3-axis gyroscope, 3-axis accelerometer, 3-axis magnetometer and temperature sensor.
- MS5611-01BA03: Barometer that includes pressure and temperature sensors.
Connectors
- 3x LED indicators (Green, Amber and Blue)
- 2x serial UART ports (ttyO0 is not active)
- 1x CAN connector and transceiver
- 3x I2C ports
- 1x Buzzer
- 1x Safety switch
- 9x PWM output channels
- 1 PPM/S.Bus in
- 1x Spektrum
- 1x Power brick connector
- 1x Battery backup (1 LiPo cell)
- 1x ADC
- 2x GPIOs exposed (IO)
- 1x analogic pressure sensor (AIR)
Mechanical characteristics
- Size: 88.6 x 54.73 x 20.69 mm
- Layers: 6
- PCB Thickness: 1.62 mm
- Weight: 31 grams
Support the crowdfunding campaign of the PXF here.
Comments
i'll take a look at that. and my intent wasn't to cast shadow over the significant work you and team have accomplished… But NutX on the pixhwak is a real time operating system… Linux is not… there is a huge amount of noise around regulations and safety… If people are going to run an autopilot on a computer and use that computer for different tasks then they need to understand its limitations…
There's a lot of work behind this cape Julian. Refer to github.com/beaglepilot/beaglepilot
first of all I'm a technologist… And make a lot of use of small form factor technology like Beaglebone black and Raspberry Pi….
Apart from proving that it can be done… I'm not sure I totally understand the application for this technology ? Why not just run a pixhawk as the flight computer and offload any computing to something thats a dedicated CPU running additional tasks… the CPU available on beaglebone is thin when you start to look at image recogntion etc I would never be totally confident that code on one device running the autopilot as well wouldn't freeze under load...
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