Today, The FCUs finally arrived, once I took them out of the box, I plugged them into my computer to make sure that they worked well and it turns out that they did. both the FCUs worked perfectly first try and sensors on there, The MPU6500 and QMC5883P sensors worked perfectly with no issue what so ever. I also received the case and I am very excited to make the drones and then make them work together to form a drone swarm!
I troubleshooted, assembled and tested the devboard.
When I got my devboard, I realised that it didn’t work because there were 2 3.3v nets and they were not being connected, after linking the 2 3.3v nets together using a bodge wire I realised that the devboard still wasn’t getting enough power as the 3.3v voltage regulator was only outputting 1.3v, I ended up using an Arduno Uno’s 3.3v pins + some jumper cables to provide power to the board.
In the end I was able to make the board work just fine without too many problems!!
here is a picture of the board in the end
I completed most of the schematics for the slave drones including the IMU and Magnetometer, the only thing remaining to wire up are the motor contacts, added and wired up the ESP32
