Hardware

PX4 Hardware designs

Website at: http://pixhawk.org

PX4 is an open hardware design, following the OSHW 1.1 definition licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) license.

Pull requests for relevant fixes are very welcome.

Pixhawk v1 Hardware

FMUv1 & FMUv2 boards

Design files are EAGLE CAD files (can be viewed with the free version) www.cadsoftusa.com/

And BOM management is performed using Bob Starr's BOM-EX plugin: http://www.bobstarr.net/pages/downloads.html

Pixhawk v2 Hardware

FMUv3 board (and IMUv3 + PSMv3 support components)

The Pixhawk v2 Hardware is the result of a collaboration of the open hardware development community and 3D Robotics and has been designed in Altium.

MindPX V2 Hardware

http://www.mindpx.net

MindPX V2.8 board

Product brief: http://www.mindpx.net/assets/accessories/brochure.pdf

Hardware specification: http://www.mindpx.net/assets/accessories/Specification_MindPX.pdf

User manual: http://www.mindpx.net/assets/accessories/UserGuide_MindPX.pdf

Key features of v2.8:

1. 8 main PWM outputs + 8 aux PWM outputs
2. Dual-redundancy IMU components (onboard HMC5883L compass)
3. Support PPM/SBUS/SPEKTRUM DSM/Satellite RC input
4. Support FrSky/Wifi telemetry
5. One extra I2C port (so can support external compass and px4flow simultaneously)
6. Secondary USB port for companion computer (converted from UART2 using onboard CP2104)
7. nrf/SPI port for SPI devices
8. exposed SWD debug port
9. Built-in vibration dampening for isolated IMU, support hard mount on air frames.
10. LTC2875 as CAN controller (+/- 60V overvoltage fault protection)

MindRacer V1.2 board (Hardware version: v1.2)

MindRacer specification: http://mindpx.net/assets/accessories/mindracer_spec_v1.2.pdf

MindRacer user manual: http://mindpx.net/assets/accessories/mindracer_user_guide_v1.2.pdf

Key features of v1.2:

1. 35 x 35mm (30.5 mm mounting holes) ultra mini size, weighs about 6g
2. STM32F427 as processor
3. 6 main PWM outputs
4. onboard MPU6500 & HMC5883L
5. dual 2x7 stackable header pins for I/O port replication/expansion
6. optional IMU isolation mounting support
7. Support PPM/SBUS/SPEKTRUM DSM/Satellite RC input
8. Support FrSky/Wifi telemetry
9. onboard RTC battery and TF card slot
10. DroneCode standard connectors

Note: MindPX v2.8 & MindRacer v1.2 share same firmware.

Sapog ESC Hardware

The directory sapog_reference_hardware contains the reference hardware design for the Sapog ESC firmware. Refer to its README.md for more info.

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