IOBoard & MAVLink 1.0

[jphelirc]

Greetings to all,

Some of you already know this little board and some dont. So let's introduce it a bit more. What is IOBoard?

IOBoard is a small standalone board that has Atmel 328 MCU and ULN2003 Darlington driver integrated as one small board. It can drive 6 outputs 500mAh each and up to 42Volts.
What is best of it is that it's current firmware is fully MAVLink 1.0 compatible so you don't need to worry so much about programming it. Sure you can if you want, it's Arduino Mini compatible.

There is nice IOBoard Configurator available to make different type light patterns per flight modes. Currently it supports ArduPlane/ArduCopter specific modes and generic MAVLink modes. More will be added per requests.

We already have AutoQuad boards in here so next step will be full support for AQ flight modes.

Check short demo video on youtube

Let us know how you would like to see it in future.

[chschmid]

Hi Jani

Nice board.
What port will you use with AQ?
It would be important to feed extra LED's with the system LED patern because the leds on the mainboard are more or less covered with the GPS shield.

Best
Christof

[axelnied]

[kinderkram]

Christof & Axel:
Menno has already posted a DIY solution here. Isn't that what you asked for?
http://autoquad.org/wiki/wiki/developme ... -ledbeeper

[axelnied]

[kinderkram]

You can use any free PWM output for it as long as you don't use them twice.
If you don't need the beeper you can skip that part and only use FRONT & AFT for the LEDs.

Sooner or later this code will find an entry into the release - best with a matrix in the GUI where you can set your personal light show.

[chschmid]

That sounds promissing.
For now I prefer not to change any code. Lets fly flawless first and do the show later.
For that reason, Janis board sounds like a nice add on.

[Lyagukh]

[joebar.rc]

[jphelirc]

Yep I will add more configurable parameters on next software release.

BTW guys. There is now test release of code that outputs most important messages as FrSky protocol too. Just connect IOBoard pin D5 to your FrSky telemetry transmitter RX pin and it will output full FrSky protocol to it.

.HEX file is available on http://code.google.com/p/arducodes/downloads/list , jD_IOBoard_FrSkyMAVLink_tst_2.0.hex

I would looove to have feedback on it.

Then if you have FrSky FLD-02 display or similar you can see data nicely on your display/radio. This also works all those Turnigy 9X FrSky display mods as it uses full FrSky protocol to talk to rx/tx modules.

I will create nice little cables for connecting on various ways.

Current messages are:
- Temperature
- Accels X, Y, Z
- Altitude
- Ground Speed
- Lat/Lon
- Running time

Under work are still:
- Battery information
- Voltages/Current
- RPM (or at least it's data screen)

And few protocol optimization.

True currently it supports only common MAVLink messages and then ArduPilot custom messages, AutoQuad messages will be added on that too. As I try to create many other nice things, my time is a bit limited on programming so If someone here want to help me on that, just send a PM.

And IOBoard also have I2C bus exposed and there is already software that listens I2C packets

Menno, yes that was original idea on IOBoard. No need to modify flightcontroller code, no need to stress flightcontroller outputs and so on. Easy and simple solution.

-jani