Hi Guys,

Today I want to describe the mounting of the MK3Mag on the NaviCtrl board.

To have a good connection you have to solder the multi-pin-connector inverted and fix the MK3Mag with two screws to the NaviCtrl. If you look at the following pictures it should be self-describing.

Without the mechanical connection to the NaviCtrl the MK3Mag may fell of during flight – and it will be VERY difficult to find it again.

Hi there!

Today i finished the construction of my “third” MikroKopter. In the moment the Mikrokopter is a “patchwork” of the other two that i buildt before.

I have made a lot of pictures to illustrate the construction of my very simple MikroKopter. I believe that it is possible to build it up in one day.

Another very cool thing is the new NaviCtrl, which is currently in testing-phase by the MK-Betatesters and will be available for the community in some weeks. It’s a board with an ARM9 32 Bit Mikrocontroller on it (STR911FA). There are also a lot of connections free to have a lot of fun. For example: GPS, MK3Mag, USB, I²C, SPI, UART, … That means that the MikroKopter community has a new “playground” for the next months.

Of course the new NaviCtrl works best together with the MKGPS1 (a GPS board with an ublox LEA-4H chip) and MK3Mag (a three-dimensional magnetic sensor – which is used as a compass). With the actual releases for the Betatesters of the Mikrokopter community i can say that the MikroKopter stays in the air in a way that you would NEVER expect.

I have also filmed the autonomous position hold. I will try to put the video online in the next days.

Ok, enough written – here are some pictures:

So the MikroKopter gets more stable and now it’s time to test the FPV CCD camera from Sony together with the EPI-OSD (on screen display) and my video goggles.

More later…

Speedy