Dear Friends,
02 / 06 / 2014
After one month of work the stable firmware for VRBrain micro is ready . We fly a lot in manual and automatic , we are preparing a video and specific blog post about VRX250 the drone platform using for doing test on VRBrain micro 5 all work fine and we are happy to have a good revision of code for user that join us in pre order campaign . We start to deliver first batch of boards in 2 weeks . The good news is that now is possible to upload the firmware to VR Brain micro 5 using standard Mission Planner application. Thanks to Michael and all VR Lab team for doing a good Job around this task.
09 / 05 / 2014
today we finish to test first prototype of micro brain , this is the video of first power on , all work fine , we check all onboard sensor : IMU , BAROMETER . Check eeprom for parameter storage and SD card. Serial port , and usb interface . All work fine :) Check also new bootloader and our mission planner fork with VRBrain support all work perfect . Diego our Electronic Designer doing a great work no error until now :)
Finish the test of all subsystem : Magnetomer , GPS , RC IN PPMSUM and RC OUT and all work fine . See the video .
These are the specification :
CPU STM32F4 VR OS based on NuttX kernel 7.1
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 until 64 Gbyte.
1 RGB LED
2 LED Output
1 Buzzer Output
On board telemetry module availabe at 433 / 868 mhz. (option)
connector for external 3DR/VR GPS + MAGNETOMETER
dimension : 3.2 x 3.2 .
weight : 10 gr
Price is 99 euro the board pre order is open the mass production start in 1 week when finish the test of first production batch .
more info about status of the product on the store: http://www.virtualrobotix.it/index.php/en/shop/autopilot/vrbrainmicro51-detail
APM Copter , Plane , Rover Firmware available and fully tested by our devteam.
official blog post : http://www.virtualrobotix.com/profiles/blogs/vr-micro-brain-5-1-is-alive-first-power-up-and-os-check-up-fantas
for more info send a mail to info@virtualrobotix.com
Best
Roberto
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Hi Roberto,
This looks really promising. Excited to test some of the pre-order boards in our new airframes soon.
Congratulations and thanks for your time on Skype yesterday.
Will look out for the new videos. All the best.
Mark
Thanks for bought VR Brain micro, i think that next week we start to shipping. I m preparing a video preview will be available today later.
Best
Roberto
Good to see the progress of your team Roberto. Ordered one a few weeks ago and looking forward to it. ;)
Hi Simon,
yes input / output cable is included.
Yes support sbus and ppmsum,too
on the backside there is sd card for data logging supported by Nuttx OS .
Best
Roberto
Hey Roberto, excellent news. micro brain seems to be a really nice FC. I have a couple of questions:
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-S
Sure the integration in Mission planner is a good result for integration of Virtualrobotix in APM community :)
Thanks Jiro and Giovanni :)
@Teddy ,
thank to join us in pre order ... A lot of guys place a pre order in these days i'm very happy that VRBrain micro like a lot :)
@MP1
at the moment we don't intend to put an osd on micro brain , we implemented a osd inside our telemetry link with some interesting new features.
Looking forward to a very light and small package in my mail box with poste italiane on it.
This is great accomplishment by FOXTEAM and APM community.
Congratulations:)
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