A Flying UAV Drone Full of Sensors

Posted on June 7, 2016 by Erich Styger

One goal of this blog is to inspire engineers, in one way or another. And when I get reports back that things were useful, I like to share it :-).

So here is something what a team of young undergraduates (Przemyslaw Brudny, Marek Ulita, Maciej Olejnik) did for theirs Master Thesis work at the Politechnika Wroclawska, Poland: a very cool flying machine controlled by two Kinetis K66, having many sensors (on own designed boards) with a custom debug/programmer board similar to the tinyK20, developed with the NXP Kinetis Design Studio:

UAV (Source: Thesis of Przemyslaw Brudny)

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Kinetis Drone: First Test Flights

Posted on November 9, 2015 by Erich Styger

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

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Kinetis Drone: Driving the Electronic Speed Controllers

Posted on October 4, 2015 by Erich Styger

In “Kinetis Drone: Frame Construction with Graupner Race Copter Alpha 250 Q” I have assembled the frame for my Kinetis Drone. In this post I’m going to drive the ESC’s (Electronic Speed Controllers) with the Freescale FRDM-K22F board: