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First Navio prototypes
Today first five Navio were born, took me almost 6 hours to solder, but it was totally worth it and I even enjoyed soldering QFN’s. There was a delay with delivery of right angle servo connectors, and first prototypes received straight headers. Some chips were tricky to solder and we had to reflow them twice, but tests were easy to perform with I2Cdetect tool. Finally, closer to midnight we got everything working. So what is on the board?
MS5611 barometric pressure sensor
MPU9150 (we’ll be using MPU9250 in next batches) 3-axis gyro, accelerometer and magnetometer.
ADS1115 16-bit ADC
PCA9685 PWM extender to control servos
u-blox NEO6T GPS module with raw data on SPI, we saved the only UART on raspberry for Xbee or different telemetry.
13 servo connectors
Pixhawk compatible UART, I2C and SPI connectors
RGB LED – just because we love them
We are developing libraries for the sensors and tutorials, some of them are already available. We want to create next-gen autopilot platform, and believe that Linux is the way to get there.
this looks excellent….Hope to see it available soon
haedu, thanks! We are working hard on it and almost ready.
Approx how much will it cost?
Earl
Uphiearl, the price will be around 135-170$ depending on RTK capability.
Great work! Much better than the current staff on the market! What auopilot do you plan to support? Are you porting Arducopter or any other open source project or developing a complete new solution?
Johnny, thank you for your kind words! We plan to port APM.
you are great guys!!! I’m looking forward to test it asap available
Antonio, thanks! We’re trying our best to start manufacturing as soon as possible.
you’re great! keep it up……….
let say i want to do area mapping around 4km2 rural area and no 3G using fixed wing, are antenna selection still become an issue?
If you want to achieve high accuracy of coordinates using RTK GPS proper antenna selection is always important. If want to fly without RTK then it is okay to use simpler antennas.
Great job!!
This is realy what I want!!!