Flymaple-A flight controller with 10 DOF IMU

Description

Flymaple is a Quadcopter controller board, based on the Maple Project. The FlyMaple embeds a STM32F103RET6 (ARM Cortex-M3) as it's main MCU. It integrates a 3-Axis accelerometer,a 3-Axis gyroscope,a 3-Axis compass and a barometric pressure sensor. By using the 10 dgrees of freedom IMUs and powerful 72MHz high-performation microcontroller, flymaple is powerful enough to handle a complex algorithm and manage a robot motion system at the same time. The design of flymaple is based on the maple, which is an arduino sytle ARM processor. The Maple IDE will make Processing/Arduino programmers feel right at home. If you're familiar with Arduino then you can get started with the Maple IDE quite easily. Flymaple is aimed to run on the balancing robots,mobile platform,helicopters and quadcopters which require IMUs and high performance real time controllers. It has an amazing scalability, because it's compatible with the Arduino shields. FlyMaple extends 6 PWM channels and 8 channels for GPIO for controlling ESC/Servo and capturing RC receiver input. APPLICATIONS Aircraft Balancing robots Indoor inertial navigation Altimeter SPECIFICATION Working Voltage: 5v STM32 Operating Voltage: 3.3v 7~12v External Power supply from the 2p JST connector Output Voltage: 3.3v/5v or External input power Microcontroller: STM32F103 Running at 72Mhz with 32bit Arduino sytle ARM processor(Cortex-M3) Bootloader: Leaflabs Maple RET6 Edition 10 Degrees of Freedom on a single, flat board: ITG-3200 - triple-axis digital-output gyroscope ADXL345 - 13-bit resolution, ±16g, triple-axis accelerometer HMC5883L - triple-axis, digital magnetometer BMP085 - high-precision barometric pressure sensor Programable through an Arduino-based development environment - Maple IDE Compatible with most of Arduino shields Extends 6 channels PWM pins for controlling ESC/Servo Extends 8 channels GPIO for capturing RC receiver output 3x 4p JST connectors: Serial port 1 GPS extension port I2C interface Size: 50x50x12mm (1.97x1.97x0.47") Weight: 15g Envionment Friendly: Rohs Compliance DOCUMENTS Wiki Doc Maple Smaple sketch Schematic Sensor datasheet zip Layout drawing Maple homepage IDE & Driver Installation Open-Drone G ithub