Viper Boards Pictures

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Some pics of the viper boards that I took last week-end. (With Sonix board metal shield removed) and references to a few key components.

From left to right, Sonix video board (metal box RF shield removed), flight controller board with 4 LEDs and brushed motor leads, and GPS board with GPS Taoglass patch antenna on top of drone.

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Flight controller board (bottom) Invensense ICM20789 triple axis gyros, accelerometers, and pressure sensor. NVT2008 level shifter.

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Flight controller board (top) ARM STM32F427 MC and Cypress CYRF6936 2.4Ghz DSSS Radio;

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Sonix video board: KLH 16Mb Flash, wifi module (didn’t dare to take the shield off).

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Sonix video board. MicroSD card holder, Sonix 98671 video chip, including ARM9 400Mhz ARM926EJ-S MC.

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GPS board, bottom side. Magnetometer via I2C, U-Blox EVA-M8M GPS via Serial

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For reference … Besides the propeller screws, 4 kind of screws when disassembing the viper, depending on size, end point, and heads (with/without integrated washer)

From left to right:

  • (3) screws holding the Ardupilot FC board.
  • (2) screws holding the Sonix video board.
  • (1) screw holding the (black) JST battery connector.
  • (12) screws for the rest.

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Thanks for the info Oliver, this looks like a great little pixhawk implementation that would be awesome to integrate into higher performance micro platforms.