quanton flight control

I am proud to have the opportunity to announce hardware availability of a new target for TauLabs.

quanton flight control rev. 1 <-- shop site (on stock, worldwide shipping)

System information and components:

STM32F405 32bit arm cortex-m4 cpu with fpu, 192k ram and 1024k flash
invensense MPU6000 3-axis accel and 3-axis gyro sensor
honeywell HMC5883L 3-axis compass
meas-spec MS5611 high precision barometer
32mbit spi flash memory
up to 8 x pwm input, 1 x ppm input, up to 15 x pwm output
up to 5 x uart, 2 x i2c, sbus, dsmx, mini usb, swd
50x50mm board size, 45x45mm mikrokopter style mounting
schematics at http://github.com/taulabs
sourcecode at http://github.com/taulabs
binaries at http://jenkins.taulabs.org
answers at http://thespyd.net/questions
support at https://groups.google.com

For those who don't know about TauLabs, please look here.

OpenPilot firmware on pre release hardware:

https://vimeo.com/51772080
https://vimeo.com/51772080
https://vimeo.com/51776478

TauLabs firmware on final hardware:
https://vimeo.com/58572704
https://vimeo.com/58536514
https://vimeo.com/58536515
https://vimeo.com/58668541

Tau Labs is open so anyone that wants to develop a board and support that part of the code can contribute a firmware target. Pretty much every time we add a target it forces us to improve some aspect of the abstraction. Quanton is a 10 degree of measurement board for regular and autonomous flight using the Tau Labs code base. Freedom has a different purpose, largely with the addition of the Overo to allow capturing high resolution logs and more sophisticated flight analysis. Quanton also is the current record holder for the best sensor noise of all the boards I've tested (Revo, RevoMini, Quanton, and Freedom).

Robert - development on this is all done under Tau Labs. OpenPilot tends to frown on anyone else using the code (part of the motivation of the fork). It would be cool if you get the code running on VBRAIN - the more the merrier. Feel free to ask questions at forums.taulabs.org

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lilvinz February 2, 2013 at 3:57pm

Oh im sorry if that is not clear. It is available worldwide.

You can buy it here: http://www.quantec-networks.de/quanton

It is on stock. When its out of stock you cant checkout anymore.
Gary McCray February 2, 2013 at 3:55pm

Is your Quanton Flight Control Board going to be available in the US?

When?

From Whom?
Gary McCray February 2, 2013 at 3:22pm

James, looking at Open Pilots page states it is an open source community based project (and yet you are saying they frown on anyone else using or adapting it).

What part of community based and open source am I failing to understand?
James Cotton February 2, 2013 at 2:10pm

Tau Labs is open so anyone that wants to develop a board and support that part of the code can contribute a firmware target. Pretty much every time we add a target it forces us to improve some aspect of the abstraction. Quanton is a 10 degree of measurement board for regular and autonomous flight using the Tau Labs code base. Freedom has a different purpose, largely with the addition of the Overo to allow capturing high resolution logs and more sophisticated flight analysis. Quanton also is the current record holder for the best sensor noise of all the boards I've tested (Revo, RevoMini, Quanton, and Freedom).

Robert - development on this is all done under Tau Labs. OpenPilot tends to frown on anyone else using the code (part of the motivation of the fork). It would be cool if you get the code running on VBRAIN - the more the merrier. Feel free to ask questions at forums.taulabs.org
Peter Meister February 2, 2013 at 1:08pm

Way to go Lilvinz, I think this has great potential! Well done!
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Roberto Navoni February 2, 2013 at 12:36pm

Hi Lilvinz ,

your board is exactly in same configuration of VRBRAIN :) So as we can use OpenPilot on VRBRAIN , You can also join to development of Arducopter32 on your board :) You are welcome :)
James Cotton February 2, 2013 at 11:37am

Awesome Lilvinz. I can't wait to see lots of people flying these around.

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