An old hardware-hacker friend of mine recommended diyfpv.com to me, and I'm delighted to see that there are so many others who share my interest in true DIY designs! For anyone interested in building their own DIY flight controller from COTS components, I'm happy to announce that I'm selling -- at cost plus a dollar -- two versions of a tiny breakout board for the popular BMI088 inertial measurement unit (IMU). After many years of tinkering with existing FCs, microcontrollers (MCUs), and IMU breakouts, I arrived at a solution based on the popular Teensy4 line of Arduino-compatible MCUs. All the code -- including a simple simulator based on Webots platform is open-source, of course, and available on github. My aim with this project is not to compete with existing, powerful ecosystems like diyfpv, but rather to offer a minimalist (under 3,000 lines of code) platform for researchers and hobbyists to develop their own designs, experiment with sensor funsion and closed-loop control, etc., in a way that leverages the enormous Arduino ecoysystem for sensors and actuator. Suggestions / questions are welcome!
An old hardware-hacker friend of mine recommended diyfpv.com to me, and I'm delighted to see that there are so many others who share my interest in true DIY designs! For anyone interested in building their own DIY flight controller from COTS components, I'm happy to announce that I'm selling -- at cost plus a dollar -- two versions of a tiny breakout board for the popular BMI088 inertial measurement unit (IMU). After many years of tinkering with existing FCs, microcontrollers (MCUs), and IMU breakouts, I arrived at a solution based on the popular Teensy4 line of Arduino-compatible MCUs. All the code -- including a simple simulator based on Webots platform is open-source, of course, and available on github. My aim with this project is not to compete with existing, powerful ecosystems like diyfpv, but rather to offer a minimalist (under 3,000 lines of code) platform for researchers and hobbyists to develop their own designs, experiment with sensor funsion and closed-loop control, etc., in a way that leverages the enormous Arduino ecoysystem for sensors and actuator. Suggestions / questions are welcome!
IMU breakout: https://www.tindie.com/stores/bobbiebots/
Firmare / simulator: https://github.com/simondlevy/Hackflight