UAVCAN: CANbus for the rest of us

[mike (mike kelly)]

I wanted to add a note that OlliW has designed a universal UAVCAN node that, with different firmware, can act as an ESC interface, a GPS interface, a barometer interface, a serial tunnel interface and more. Jani at JDrones has produced a commercial version of the board and it is available on Jani’s webstore. http://store.jdrones.com/uavcan_electronics_jdrones_s/314.htm

This is great news and it brings UAVCAN via UC4H to Arducopter users at price DIY’ers can afford.

Thanks Jani!

PS In addition to this article see my note on configuring Ardupilot to use UAVCAN.

Configuring Ardupilot for UAVCAN

[image] I thought I would add to the UAVCAN article I just posted a note on configuring UAVCAN in Ardupilot. I have built a UAVCAN quad and it is so cool because there are only three connections to the flight controller. Power, CANbus and RCin are all that is required! The UC4H GPS/MAG adapted HERE GNSS, the 4 Zubax ESCs are connected UAVCAN and OlliW’s UAVCAN Powerbrick are all daisy-chained together on the CANbus network. I used Arducopter 3.6dev because it has revised and more consistent U…