New board on the market

[Lee]

Just saw that Dominic Clifton, the creator of Cleanflight, has a board out now.
http://seriouslypro.com/spracingf3
I'm keen to try one. Almost pushed the buy button, but my sensible head took over
The Acro version is double the price of a Nase32 Acro. I wonder if its twice as good.
Anyone want to be first to try one?

[danhampson]

i think i might order one of those a deluxe version for the bodge copter the bits in yellow are of interest to me.

extract from the manual

Features
• No compromise I/O. Use all the features all the time; e.g. Connect your OSD + SmartPort + SBus + GPS + LED
Strip + Battery Monitoring + Sonar + 8 motors - all at the same time!
• On-board high-capacity black box flight log recorder - optimize your tuning and see the results of your setup without
guesswork (Acro and Deluxe).
• Next-generation STM32 F3 processor with hardware floating point unit for efficient flight calculations and faster
ARM-Cortex M4 core.
• Stackable design - perfect for integrating with OSDs and power distribution boards.
• 16 PWM I/O lines for ESCs, Servos and legacy receivers. 8 available on standard pin headers. 8 via side
mounted connectors.
• Full support for OneShot ESCs for easy PID tuning and a sharper response.
• Supports SBus, SumH, SumD, Spektrum1024/2048, XBus, PPM, PWM receivers. No external inverters required
(built-in).
• Dedicated output for programmable LEDs - great for orientation, racing and night flying.
• Dedicated I2C port for connection of OLED display without needing flight battery.
• Battery monitoring ports for voltage and current.
• Sonar support for precision low-altitude hold.
• Buzzer port for audible warnings and notifications.
• Developer friendly debugging port (SWD) and boot mode selection, unbrickable bootloader.
• Symmetrical design for a super tidy wiring.
• Wire up using pin headers, JST-SH sockets or solder pads. Use either right-angled or straight pin-headers.
• Barometer mounted on the bottom of the board for easy wind isolation.
• Loop times up to ~2x as fast as previous-generation STM32F1 based boards.
• Configuration of the flight controller via a cross-platform GUI (Windows/OSX/Linux).
• Supports a variety of aircraft, tricopters, quadcopters, hexacopters, octocopters, planes and more.
• Available in Acro and Deluxe versions.
Variations
Acro: Standard model for racing/acro flying.
Deluxe: Additional sensors for altitude and direction.

[danhampson]

well i would have done but they are out of stock of the deluxe board

[danhampson]

Damn you Lee (shiny new electronics, blackbox ha haha ha), ive got one on the way, got it from hear http://www.massiverc.com/PrestaShop/en/ ... eluxe.html

[Lee]

Hahaha. I knew you couldn't resist
I needed a test dummy, to try one first, before I get one LOL

[Derek]

Hahaha. I knew you couldn't resist
I needed a test dummy, to try one first, before I get one LOL

ha ha ha....finally, the first real test of our brotherhood, lol. Lee was looking for a "test dummy" ha ha ha

[danhampson]

Hahaha. I knew you couldn't resist
I needed a test dummy, to try one first, before I get one LOL

ha ha ha....finally, the first real test of our brotherhood, lol. Lee was looking for a "test dummy" ha ha ha

hopefully not crash test dummy

once i had read the specs on the board i was sold, and im happy to spend the extra on this board as i know funds go towards the development of cleanflight and the next gen flight controller. At the moment with the filp/naze/cc3d running cleanflight you can only run 2 devices ie gps and osd or bluetooth and sonar, with this new board you can run them all at the same time and its got built in blackbox.

Its like a dream come true.

[Derek]

Dan seems to be salivating, lol

[cml001]

I like this!

[cml001]

So let's say I have a naza32 with GPS, compass, OSD, leds, camera... What is the sequence of powering up in preparation for a flight & why?

[cml001]

Reading the manual on this Seriously Pro, we'll call it SPFC or SP... It says apply only one power source... Am I interpreting this wrong? If u have it connected to the usb u cannot connect the flight pack at the same time?

[danhampson]

So let's say I have a naza32 with GPS, compass, OSD, leds, camera... What is the sequence of powering up in preparation for a flight & why?

Mines all wired to the main power rail so it all comes on at once.

Reading the manual on this Seriously Pro, we'll call it SPFC or SP... It says apply only one power source... Am I interpreting this wrong? If u have it connected to the usb u cannot connect the flight pack at the same time?

i think its referring too the bec's from the esc's, some people run all the bec's to the FC if they are linear, some parts of the cleanflight setup have to be done with the usb and the flight pack plugged in, ie esc calibration.

[cml001]

Mines all wired to the main power rail so it all comes on at once.

does the video & GPS not have to boot before the FC? I'm try'n to figure all this out.. Sorry to be a pain.

[danhampson]

what ive been doing is taking a spare pack (3s old tired thing) with me, powering the quad off the spare pack to let the gps get lock and them swapping the packs out just before take off (this let the gps hot start and it gets lock virtually instantly. Ive not had any issues with all my components powering up at the same time. hope this helps.

[danhampson]

My new board arrived last weekend and I made the decision to put it on porket after a conversation with borisb about the looptimes that this board can run.