This is a port of bradwii to another ARM architecture, Nuvoton Mini51 which is represented by commercial microhelis WL-Toys V202, V252, and JXD JD-385. For hardware description details see https://github.com/hackocopter/JD385_Documentation .
Briefly, it uses MINI54ZAN ARM MCU with 16KB ROM and 2KB RAM, combined gyro/accelerometer InvenSense MPU-6050, and nRF24L01+ clone Beken BK2423.
Hubsan X4 H107 serie uses Invensense MPU-3050 gyro, mCube MC3210 accelerometer and A7105 RF.
Hopefully it also will allow us to port it to similar ARM platform, Nuvoton M051, which is represented by HiSky HMX120 (former FF120) and its rebadge HobbyKing Q-BOT micro.
It uses M058ZBN ARM MCU with 32KB ROM and 4KB RAM, gyro InvenSense MPU-3050, supposedly accelerometer Freescale MMA8452Q (maybe ST LIS3DH), and nRF24L01 clone Si24R1.
Datasheets for HMX120 are at http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1826018&page=51#post24710038
- Nuvoton MINI54ZAN ARM Cortex-M0
- AMICCOM A7105 2.5GHz transceiver
- mCube MC3210 3-Axis Accelerometer
- InvenSense MPU-3050 3-Axis MEMS Gyroscope
TheLastMutt has made lots of improvements to the H107L port, they're merged into this repo and still builds with Keil.
Current status
The control parameters habe been optimized in a way that flying feels similar to the original firmware. It is possible to lift off very slowly and fly close to the ground. The control parameters have not been tested in acro or semi-acro mode.
Accelerometer calibration can be separated from gyro calibration, like the original firmware does. After executing the manual accelerometer calibration, the parameters are stored in data flash. At subsequent power-on only the gyro calibration is executed. This way there is no need to find a level surface for every power-on.
Testing a new flight mode: "yaw hold". In this mode the yaw controller controls the yaw angle instead of the yaw rate. If the quadcopter gets rotated away from its desired heading (due to wind or high throttle or whatever), it will try to rotate back to the desired heading. This is similar to compass mode, but a compass is not needed. This mode can be activated using the checkboxes like all the other flight modes. It is currently activated using AUX2 ("flip"/"no flip" channel of X4).
The X4 board does not have a serial port, so a PC configuration software cannot be connected.
How to use:
- Switch quadcopter on
- (If all LEDs slowly blink 4 times, no accelerometer calibration was found in data flash. Accelerometer will be calibrated after binding with transmitter, so a level surface is needed. Use manual accelerometer calibration to remedy this)
- All LEDs blink alternating
- Put quadcopter on steady surface
- Switch transmitter on
- LEDs blink in circular pattern. Don't move the quadcopter during this time because the calibration is ongoing.
- When calibration is done, all LEDs blink short pulses. Quadcopter is not armed yet and will not respond to throttle.
- Press the lower throttle trim button for one second ("LEDs off" for Hubsan firmware)
- All LEDs are on and you are ready to fly.
- When the LEDs start to blink during flight it's time to land because the battery is nearly empty. With this firmware the LEDs only blink while the battery voltage is low, so blinking might be temporary at high throttle.
Disarm by pressing the lower throttle trim button again for one second.
Manual accelerometer calibration:
- Quadcopter must be on level surface
- Quadcopter must be in "not armed" state
- Throttle stick at minimum
- Move roll stick 3 times left and right
- LEDs blink in circular pattern to indicate calibration process. When finished, results are stored in data flash.
When burning a firmware with new PID control parameters, checkboxconfig or anything else from the usersettings struct make sure to erase the data flash. Otherwise the firmware will continue to use the old data.
- Bradwii was originally coded by Brad Quick for AVR: https://github.com/bradquick/bradwii
- Trollcop forked and ported to ARM STM32, untested: https://github.com/trollcop/bradwii
- The Mini54ZAN ARM port to V202/JD385 was done by Victor: https://github.com/victzh/bradwii
- The Hubsan X4 H107L port was done by Goebish: https://github.com/goebish/bradwii-X4
- Extra work on the H107L port by TheLastMutt: https://github.com/TheLastMutt/bradwii-x4-gcc