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MSP430FR4133 Launchpad with Custom BoosterPack in Action

tomaja
tomaja
4 Jan 2016

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Back to Illuminating my Tricopter

After a small break I was finally able to continue working on the TI's and Würth Elektronik LED Roadtest+.

In this post I will just demonstrate the custom booster pack for my MSP430FR4133 LaunchPadMSP430FR4133 LaunchPad

 

BoosterPack

For this project I placed all the necessary components on a 20-pin booster pack designed using Eagle freeware.

Magnetometer was used in form of a breakout board that connects to boosterpack using 5-pin board-to-board connector.

Main battery voltage will be sensed using simple voltage divider (I will use 1% resistors) so it will not be extremely precise but good enough to let me know if I have to land the aircraft soon.

Current speed of each separate motor will be sensed using simple low-pass filters attached to each ESC input (PWM). I plan to visualise each motor speed using the same WS2812B LED strip.

 

LaunchPad with BoosterPack attached

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All components in this test...

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Here's a short video demonstration of a 3 cell battery powered LaunchPad with BoosterPack.

Thanks to my 2 year old son's fast steps I had to slow the video a bit image Taking this video was great!

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Top Comments

  • DAB
    DAB over 9 years ago +1
    Great post. It does look like your son enjoyed pushing you around. DAB
  • tomaja
    tomaja over 9 years ago in reply to DAB +1
    We both did :)
  • measley
    measley over 9 years ago +1
    Cool BoosterPack
  • measley
    measley over 9 years ago

    Cool BoosterPack

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    tomaja over 9 years ago in reply to DAB

    We both did :)

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    DAB over 9 years ago

    Great post.

     

    It does look like your son enjoyed pushing you around.

     

    DAB

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