My spare PDB didn’t come in, so I’m left with a drone that looks like this:
That white thing in the middle is my “good enough” PDB, but it doesn’t fit in my frame. So I can’t assemble it all.
We got to the point where we were confirming incoming signals, and confirming outgoing signals, but couldn’t get incoming signals to create outgoing signals. Which meant that something was going wrong in the flight controller. It turns out, that for Russ’ board at least, the wiring diagram was completely wrong. We re-wired it and got immediate success!
Russ started then to assemble his stuff for real, with lock-tight and everything, while I got my own parts configured enough that once that damn PDB comes in, I’ll be in the same place he is. Shipping from Asia…
Here’s a photo of Russ’s drone, before the top plate got put on. It was wicked fun to hand-fly this thing around the room, as it’s so close to being a flyable device!
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