Building the CANbus

[Riccardo Kuebler]

Hi,

now I have a working system.
Thank you so much to Matt, who devoted a great amount of time trying to take me out of my problems.

Building the CANbus I did some pictures.

Here you can have a look at them.

Best regards,

Ric

[Peter Hollands]

Ric,

Lovely photos. Thanks.

I see that you have only soldered in 5 inputs and 5 outputs on the servo interface.
(you are not using all 8 inputs and outputs on the servo-interface board).

So I assume you are going to keep 3 outputs still on the UDB board ?

I suppose that is a test-pilot strategy for ensuring that you still have
ailerons, rudder and elevator if the CANbus fails during flight testing ?

Best wishes, Pete

[Riccardo Kuebler]

Pete,

no I soldered a minimum amount to have the system work (not having a lot of pins left). I would like to have all the controls to the CANbus. I even don't know if it is possible to have them mixed between UDB and CANbus. I'm trying to recover the board I destroyed unsoldering the pins from bottomside (Oilpan) for the second time. So I can use it without pins, only cable directly soldered and a couple of pins for power.

Best regards,

Ric

2010/10/31 Peter Hollands <peter.h...@gmail.com>

[UAVflightdirector]

Ric,

It is not possible to mix them yet. That is on the upgrade plan.

For now, three channels are mirrored between UDB and interface. You
can choose which they are.

I am developing some SPI and sensor drivers at the moment. After that
I can move on to modifying the servo drivers.

If you have any feature request, add them to the issues list:
http://code.google.com/p/rc-servo-interface/issues/list

Matt

On Oct 31, 8:14 pm, Riccardo Kuebler <kueb...@ticino.com> wrote:
> Pete,
>
> no I soldered a minimum amount to have the system work (not having a lot of
> pins left). I would like to have all the controls to the CANbus. I even
> don't know if it is possible to have them mixed between UDB and CANbus. I'm
> trying to recover the board I destroyed unsoldering the pins from bottomside
> (Oilpan) for the second time. So I can use it without pins, only cable
> directly soldered and a couple of pins for power.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Ric
>

> 2010/10/31 Peter Hollands <peter.holla...@gmail.com>

>
> > Ric,
>
> > Lovely photos. Thanks.
>
> > I see that you have only soldered in 5 inputs and 5 outputs on the servo
> > interface.
> > (you are not using all 8 inputs and outputs on the servo-interface board).
>
> > So I assume you are going to keep 3 outputs still on the UDB board ?
>
> > I suppose that is a test-pilot strategy for ensuring that you still have
> > ailerons, rudder and elevator if the CANbus fails during flight testing ?
>
> > Best wishes, Pete
>

> > On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Riccardo Kuebler <kueb...@ticino.com>wrote:
>
> >> Hi,
>
> >> now I have a working system.
> >> Thank you so much to Matt, who devoted a great amount of time trying to
> >> take me out of my problems.
>
> >> Building the CANbus I did some pictures.
>

> >> Here <http://picasaweb.google.com/chiloschista88/CANbus#> you can have a

[Adam Barrow]

Matt,
could the three channels that are mirrored between the UDB and the interface be considered "mixing" between the UDB and the CANBus servo extension? I'm thinking if the say rudder channel is connected on the extension board and then the aileron channel (one of the three) is connected on the UDB that could be the mixing that Pete and Ric are talking about.

Regards,
Adam Barrow

[UAVflightdirector]

That would work. You could have max 8 channels at the moment.