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Dear Friends,

Today we going in production with the first batch of micro brain 5.1 board. After see some micro drone based on vrbrain fly , we decide to support the development of this great platform ... so we start to develop a special revision of VRbrain 5  for this kind of products where the small dimension and low weight are very important factor.

Our user like a lot the drone log because can doing check and understand better how the drone fly : best speed , best flip , rally ecc ecc ...

This is fully total autonomous platform available for micro drone.

These are the specification : 

CPU STM32F4 VR OS based on NuttX kernel.

1 EEPROM or FRAM device for parameter storage. 

IMU MPU6000 SPI.

MSIC Barometer 10 cm resolution.  

8 PPM Radio RC Input .

8 PWM ESC - SERVO Output.

1 SBUS Radio Input compatible with Futaba SBUS and Spektrum ,too

1 SBUS Servo Output.

SD Card Reader 

1 RGB LED 

2 LED Output 

1 Buzzer Output 

On board telemetry module availabe at 433 / 868 mhz. (option) 

connector for external VR GPS + MAGNETOMETER

dimension 4x4 .

native support of APM Firmware : 

APM Copter 

APM Plane

APM Rover 

Custom firmware available for boat and Paramotor Drone.

I think that special new mode ad hybrid loiter and drift are very interesting for these great toys :) 

some example of micro drone developed by Tommyleo , AleBS , Skud85 and other great pilot :)

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Some info and example are available on italian forum baronerosso :

http://www.baronerosso.it/forum/modelli-multirotori/303284-idee-per-un-frame-da-micro-quad-fpv.html

This is the video doing by Bandit with a micro squid 

original blog post : 

http://www.virtualrobotix.com/profiles/blogs/secret-picture-from-vr-lab-vr-micro-brain-5-1-is-coming-the-micro

for info send a mail to : 

info@virtualrobotix.com

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  • Roberto, I have an iris with pixhawk and i buy one vrbrain 4.5 and ublox 6 and ublox 8 from virtualrobotix.

    Now I buy 3 meter arcus para from hacker with trike. Will also be grateful if i could get some apm plane or vbrain config files for the para.

    Hat off Sir for your products

    Greetings, Paul

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    But in manual mode your Paraglider fly well ? Do you have a video  ?  You can use 2 servo but connected only with roll output using asymetrically a Y cable on two servo. Start your fly in manual ... then when you are up 10 m change in stable or fly by wire b . The motor start to mantain altitude and the autopilot work well ... I'm using vrbrain don't use apm but could be similar ...

    Best

    Roberto

  • @Roberto

    I am using this 2.15 m parafoil. Nacela is home made, I am using with this motor and 10x6 prop. The weight of nacela is adjustable with some payload. Me I am using 2 servos instead of 1 servo.I am trying to make it flying with APM Arduplane and if you can share your APM Plane parameters would be great. Thanks.

  • i am waiting you new board since many months..(i don t want to buy chinese clone or 3dr product)

    on top of that you new board will have a better price, so as soon as it will be available i will launch an order.(150eur was little too high..you will have more orders with this new price,)

    i like you products, and all effort you have made for this great project

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    @Xin @titeuf007

    I'm very happy that you like the new Micro Brain , in my new design i try to develop original product with new feature that user ask to me in precedent design .

    I think that micro brain could be good for micro quad , hely and also small plane .

    best 

    Roberto 

  • great  roberto

    no need  anymore to buy a chinese copy clone at this price :)

    tau lab support is great thing too

  • This is what I' looking for so far, very elegant design. Even for the larger quads, small but powerful FC is much more preferred. Be sure to let us know when it's available!

    BTW, Tau Labs firmware support is awesome, now I can take out my STM32F4 board from the quad and use it as a normal dev board again.

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    @Martin,

    we like a lot play with technology and try to optimize and improve our design for reach the limit of hardware ... but with this kind of cpu we have a lot of power respect of 8 bit platform STM32 processor is great for this kind of application :) The next step will be Sitara ... :)

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    @Titeuf

    not yet decide final price but the basic version  could be under 100 euro .

    best

    Roberto

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    @Criro

    basically the parameter depend of kind of parachute that you use . When i start to test the Paraglider i use standard APM Plane , connect motor as a Plane and use 1 servo configuration for control the lenght of Paraglider aero brakes. I connect this servo to roll control ... Then start to check the PID and search the right setup ... is not so simple but is possible. What kind of paraglider are you using ?

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