Modular Unmanned Vehicle Controller

MCU module is alive!

Hi!

The PCBs I ordered from PCBWay have just arrived! Very nice work! Here are the pictures:

Very good!

Very good work!

I thank every follower for the support received!

Now lets go to the next step: assembling and testing everything.

Please remember that your comments are welcome. If you prefer use my private email for them: enhering@gmail.com

Hi! I've just placed an order at PCBWay to fabricate the PCBs. Here are the final drawings:

1 - A panel with enough modules and submodules to build a complete system: 3 sensor submodules, 2 servo controllers, 3 power supplies, 8 MCU modules. I ordered 10 panels like this:

2 - The backbone where the modules, with attached submodules, will be plugged. There is also a place to attach a RN131G wifi radio to it:

3 - A support to hold the RN131g and plug it to the backbone:

The total production cost was 318 USD. I have already ordered other PCBs from PCBWay and they did a very good work, so I used their services again:

If you believe in this project and wish to help, please send me a $1 USD donation to help paying for these PCBs. All the project files are available on the repo for public use. My PayPal address is enhering@gmail.com

I'll keep posting the project progress here. Thanks again for your support and comments!

Hi again.

This is the panel I ordered on PCBWay. It is under review. If accepted I'll upload the gerber files to this Hackaday project, so you can order them too if you want.

Comments are welcome.

Hi. My daughter is almost five months old and I just had some time to breath. I'm going to place an order on PCBWay to produce 30 panels similar to the one below. It has 2 servo control modules, two 9dof sensor modules, two power supplies, eight micro controller modules and a backbone to join all these. No components added.

The price for thirty panels is around 300 dollars, with delivery to Brazil. If you want to receive one of those panels, please tell me. I'll share the cost of the panel, shipping and import taxes (China-> Brazil) proportionally, add the shipping to you and send it. I will also gladly accept few dollars donations via PayPal to help cover those costs (enhering@gmail.com).

The price quote from PCBWay follows below. I do not know if exists a PCB manufacturer which works with project numbers, permitting anybody to order a panel independently, using only that number. Something like that would reduce the final costs of the panels.

Here is the quote from PCBWay:

I assume you understand that this panel includes *prototypes* of the last version of the system, and that there may be problems with it. I'll use them to assemble, debug and test the flight controller. I'll be very happy to help if you want to risk some money, assemble your own boards and help testing the system.

As always, your comments are welcome and very appreciated.

Hi. The project repo moved from BitBucket to XP-DEV.com. A forum and a blog have been created for it. The repo is public for reading, and the forum is public. Please try to download the repo and write me if something goes wrong. The links on the left have been updated to reflect the changes.

Hi again!

Following instructions from these links:

http://osdir.com/ml/cad.kicad.user/2007-12/msg00065.html

https://forum.kicad.info/t/the-file-append-board-menu-item-is-disabled/874/5

I made the following test panel, which will cost around 200 USD to be produced when 30 copies are ordered. The quote is from PCBWay.

I'm quoting the project PCBs with PCBWay. Do you know how to make a panel with all the project PCBs?

Hi. Here is the candidate for a ten degrees of freedom sub module. It has a BMP085 pressure sensor, a LIS331 accelerometer, a HMC5883 magnetometer and a L3G4200D gyroscope.

The PCB looks like this:

Your comments are very welcome!

Hi. This is the candidate for a 16 channels servo controller sub module. If you see any problems here, please comment.

The board looks big here, but it is really tiny. The schematic diagram is:

Very soon I'll order this board and the ones already presented here. If you are interested in ordering some of them too, please let me know.

Comments, as always, are welcome.

This diagram is based on the schematic diagram below, from Adafruit Industries: