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SDWAM Drone

Created by: gaspi.doggo
2 devlogs
1h 6m 13s

Hi! I’m Sam Veloso from Chile and I’m making a drone that I’ve coined SDWAM (Simple Drone With A Magnet). It will have a raspberry pi pico as its microcontroller, MPU-6050 IMU and NRF24L01 transceiver. Hope you like it!

gaspi.doggo
gaspi.doggo worked on SDWAM Drone
about 1 month ago
0h 32m logged

Made massive progress! I started looking up the datasheets for all my components (MPU 6050, Regulators, etc.) and basically just started copying the sample schematic to my Kicad. Right now I’m working on the NRF24L01 (Antenna).
The finished components are:

  • MPU-6050
  • BQ258833 Battery charger
  • BMP580 Barometer
  • LMR51430 and TPS63070 Regulators
  • Micro SD card.
    I (sadly) lost about 50 minutes of work because my kicad hackatime plugin bugged.
    (Also, how am I gonna make this interactable for you guys?? Am I supposed to make this again in tinkercad? Idk, but that’s a problem for future me)
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gaspi.doggo
gaspi.doggo worked on SDWAM Drone
about 1 month ago
0h 33m logged

After 2 hours of painful research, I finally figured out how easyeda2kicad works! Apparently, my computer doesn’t know how to read the “easyeda2kicad” command, so I found out that putting “python3 -m” is kind of necessary for my situation. It took me some time to load the symbols because of my painfully slow internet. Also managed to wire some of the components.

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