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Pixhawk Infographic

Posted by Jethro Hazelhurst on February 5, 2014 at 4:30am

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Hi everyone!

I would like to introduce to you the final "Pixhawk Infographic" that I have been working on for a while now... it illustrates some of the tips I have learned over the past few years and shows the components that I would like to use in my own personal quadcopter design.

For the full resolution image please go here (thanks to Gary McCray): http://copter.ardupilot.com/wiki/advanced-pixhawk-quadcopter-wiring-chart/

In my next blog post I would also like to release some of the original individual PNG graphics for anyone who wants to use them in their own diagrams! Hopefully some of this can be used in the wiki!

I would appreciate it if any mistakes in the Infographic could also be pointed out so that I can make adjustments!


 Best regards,

Jethro.

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  • John Moore February 5, 2014 at 9:02am

    Nice job, this is a good overview for flight controllers in general.

  • Trevor Strand February 5, 2014 at 8:59am
    Great job! I'm sure the answer is obvious to the quad guys, but is this diagram specific to an H frame or X frame? Or did I not see that? I know this is 90% of the solution, but I hope to see a fixed wing version of this some day! Thanks for the diagram.
  • Frenchguy February 5, 2014 at 8:28am

    Can we have a high resolution version of this so labels are readable?

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    Alexandre Mainardi (Nuvem UAV) February 5, 2014 at 8:22am

    Jethro Hazelhurst Can you share High Resolution link? i can't read the small text. Thank you in advance!

  • Mark Prince February 5, 2014 at 7:40am

    Great job. Very helpful for the beginners like myself. 

  • mdisher February 5, 2014 at 7:32am

    Well done, links to some of the components would be super sweet.

  • Josh Welsh February 5, 2014 at 7:04am

    Very nicely done, Jethro!

  • Joe Thompson February 5, 2014 at 6:46am

    This is awesome. Can we get it in higher res?

    Noobie, and maybe I shouldn't ask questions here, but i'm going to anyway:

    1) You've got the turnigy 9x reciever hooked up to a PPM sum - I thought the 9x RX was PPM already? Or is that just the TX? Would something like this be the right module and reciever to avoid buying the PPM summer?

    2) Seems like all the big batteries on hobbyking have 4mm bullet connectors instead of XT60. Should I take off the bullets and solder on my own XT60? Or can I forgo the 3DR power module and use BEC ESCs...?

    3) If i wanted to control LEDs or servos with the pixhawk, do I connect them to the aux servo pins? I don't understand what the system can drive... because this picture seems to show that you hook up to S and ground, but above it it says:

    Warning: Do not connect the servo’s power (red) and ground (black) wires to the RC10 (A10) & RC11 (A11) or you may cause the APM to brownout when the servos move.  Instead power the servos from an external BEC or from the APM’s rear power rail with the JP1 jumper removed.  More details below in the Connecting the servos to the APM section.

    It also says "Power the servos via the PWM Outputs connector power and ground pins."  
    So... is that the ESC? What is a pwm output connector?.... man I do not know what i am doing.

    thanks

     

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    Gary Mortimer February 5, 2014 at 6:44am

    I think I would buy one if available.... Oh and an aircraft one hint hint.

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    Alexandre Mainardi (Nuvem UAV) February 5, 2014 at 6:44am

    Very Nice! Thanks for share :)

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