Monday, January 9, 2012

Mongoose 9DOF arrived

In the meanwhile the Mongoose finally arrived.
I have to say i am very impressed with the job they did building this little powerful device. Of course the first thing i did was to mount the pins on the serial header so i can connect it with the FTDI USB to USART. and see if all works.
I was somehow expected to see it working but not as good i saw it working. Very fast response, ZERO problems and the size, well the size is comparable to pro mini and i am afraid that if i will snooze i will break it. It does look fragile but it is very robust device and very well built

I decided first to use MultiWii as base code and make the modifications to work with Mongoose board and do not worry i will make it public with parameters and so on. Actually i will make modifications of the default values to work with my setup, so if any of you will buy the parts i was using you will get a flying multicopter out of the box.

As soon i will have a flying version of the software based on multiwii (PID based) and win my prize from ckdevices :P, i will start working on a fuzzy version of the stabilization control that will be build from scratch based on mongoose.

I will post some photos tonight of the work done as soon i get home from work.

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