One day earlier than expected, our tinyK20 boards arrived, and they are looking great :-):
Four tinyK20 Boards
Production tinyK20 Boards arrived!
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Category Archives: Boards
Kinetis Drone: First Test Flights
Over the weekend, I finally have repaired the broken ESC (see “Kinetis Drone: Graupner ESC S3055 Failure“). Time to run some first test flights :-).
Kinetis Drone Flying Tests
Kinetis Drone: Remote Controller with SUMD
The bad news: my ESC (see “Kinetis Drone: Graupner ESC S3055 Failure“) for my Kinetis drone is still not repaired :-(. Anyway, I have plenty of other things to make for my drone project. One is to work on the remote controller:
Test Setup
Tutorial: lwip with FreeRTOS and the Freescale FRDM-K64F Board
This tutorial is about how to create a lwIP project with FreeRTOS using the Kinetis SDK V1.3.0 with Kinetis Design Studio on the Freescale FRDM-K64F board.
FRDM-K64F Board with lwIP running
tinyK20 Production Boards Ready for Parts
New pictures from the manufacturing process of the tinyK20 boards. Now all parts to be populated have been arrived at the manufacturing, so populating the boards can start soon:
tinyK20 PCB Bottom
tinyK20 Board in Manufacturing
The manufacturing of 200 tinyK20 board is progress, and I’m sharing pictures of it :-).
Rendering from CAD Tool, top side:
Top side with gold plating and mask
Playing Tetris with a FRDM-KL43Z Board
How about to use the Freescale FRDM-KL43Z board (see “Unboxing the Freescale FRDM-KL43Z Board“) to play a Tetris game?
Kinetis Drone: Graupner ESC S3055 Failure
While developing my driver for the Electronic Speed Controllers (ESC’s) for my quadrocopter (see “Kinetis Drone: Driving the Electronic Speed Controllers“), I noticed a some strange smell, followed by a failure of one motor ESC 😦
Quadrocopter ESCs
Zumo Robots at Maker Faire in Rome (16. – 18. Oct. 2015)
I won’t be able to attend the Maker Faire in Rome (16. – 18. Oct. 2015). But five of the Sumo bots students from the previous semesters have built and programmed will be there.
Sumo Robots
Kinetis Drone: Sensor Fusion Toolbox
Flying a quadrocopter without some sensor and microcontroller intelligence will be a challenge. Definitely I will need some intelligent sensor data to help me out :-). Luckily, there is a Freescale ‘Sensor Fusion Toolbox’ and Library which gives me a nice start and visibility into the sensors I plan to use:
Sensor Fusion Data
MCU on Eclipse 