Hi everyone! I am finally ready to show off something I've been working on for months! It's a motherboard (which I am calling the MAXboard) that all the various electronics for a multirotor aircraft plug into. It eliminates pretty much any possible wiring mistakes, and all soldering. It makes it much easier to build, repair, and upgrade your aircraft.
This is an open source project, and am I running a Kickstarter campain to get some funds to continue development. I am also really hoping to get the support of the DIY Drones community to help me test it and work out bugs.
There is also a frame I designed to go with it as well as a ground station I think you'll like. I'll post more information on those, as well as some videos, soon.
For more info, or to help support the project, please take a look at my Kickstarter. Thanks! http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1703258614/maxrotor-open-source-plug-and-play-modular-quadcop
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Hi Michael,
The RF interferences are big issue. I'd advice to make a proto ...a bare proto..no traces, no connectors. Place all boards over, connect them, power all and investigate the interferences and noise. Thus you'll find the best place for different modules for less RF noise/disturbances.
Power traces and wiring is another issue. You might think of it very carefully to avoid current loops.
Best regards
Nick
Morli, I see the button for editing the post, but not for editing my comments, that's mostly what I was referring to. Oh well. I'll just have to be a little more carfelu.
Luca, Thanks! I'd love to see what you're designing!
Jack, I'm not entirely sure I understand what you mean.
Sam, I thought long and hard about that one. I agree that the jump from $30 to $200 is large, but I didn't think very many people would go for an "assemble it yourself" package. I will be making a complete bill of materials available for people that get the bare PCB. I think I can even make it sort of a pre-selected cart that you just head over to digi-key and click buy. It shouldn't be too hard.
You're 14! That's awesome! I wish I'd had access to this stuff when I was your age. (I'm not that old... I did have computers and sorta had the internet.)
Morli, thanks for the tip. I don't think I'd tried refreshing the page. (here: I'll mistype on porpoise)
About time someone made it happen, but a large copper clad board is extremely expensive & unlike the PC era, we now live in a world of RF interference between boards, line of sight requirements, & vertical connectors instead edge connectors, requiring a very large motherboard.
Thank you!
That's really, really awesome !
Gary, thanks! I really appreciate it! A lot of work and trial and error were involved, but I'm pretty happy with how it's turning out. Yes, the top frame is ABS.
Wow!
That is a great design,
I really like the propeller protection concept and this is one of the best implementations I have seen.
You have one of the most innovative shock isolation concepts Ive seen too.
(ABS top frame?)
Garry, thanks for your comments. I think some of this will be clarified more easily with a picture.
I usually let one or 2 small typos slide, but more than that I just copy the current post into a new "Comment" box edit it and delete the old post.
You can also edit the whole blog, but then you have to wait for a moderator to re-post it.
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