{"id":111,"date":"2017-11-01T20:31:18","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T00:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/uav\/?page_id=111"},"modified":"2019-10-11T13:15:48","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T17:15:48","slug":"step3","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/uav\/first-build\/step3\/","title":{"rendered":"Step 3: Add Electrical Components"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The electronic components of a quadcopter consist of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Motors<\/li>\n<li>Electronic Speed Controllers<\/li>\n<li>Receiver and Transmitter<\/li>\n<li>Flight controller.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the flight controller we are using the HolyBro Kakute F7. The manual can be found here <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holybro.com\/manual\/Holybro_Kakute_F7_Manual.pdf\">http:\/\/www.holybro.com\/manual\/Holybro_Kakute_F7_Manual.pdf<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are using a stackable 4-in-1 esc from HolyBro which can connect all the motors to a single stackable board.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our receivers are FrSky X8R which can support up to 16 channels on a single SBUS connection. These are connected to the FrSky Taranis Q7s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Soldering:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before attaching any electronics, you want to complete all soldering on the separated components. See this guide to soldering (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HMSlF1xFozc\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HMSlF1xFozc<\/a>). You can get some hands on practice at the lab or Tinker!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You will want to make the following solder connections:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/uav\/files\/2019\/10\/FrSky.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/uav\/files\/2019\/10\/FrSky.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"621\" height=\"526\" class=\" wp-image-451 aligncenter\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The connections and process for setup are listed in the HolyBro manual above.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You will want to solder male pin headers to the flight controller instead of soldering directly to the board. This can be seen here (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3230nCz3XQA\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3230nCz3XQA<\/a>). You also want to be careful not to overheat the ESCs since they have huge pads!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bonus:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Research the protocols used by the ESCs to convert the signal from the flight controller to motors (<a href=\"https:\/\/oscarliang.com\/esc-firmware-protocols\/\">https:\/\/oscarliang.com\/esc-firmware-protocols\/)<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Research the protocol used by the transmitter to communicate with the receiver (https:\/\/www.getfpv.com\/learn\/new-to-fpv\/all-about-multirotor-fpv-drone-radio-transmitter-and-receiver\/)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/uav\/first-build\/step4\/\">Step 4: Program control<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The electronic components of a quadcopter consist of: Motors Electronic Speed Controllers Receiver and Transmitter Flight controller. For the flight controller we are using the HolyBro Kakute F7. The manual can be found here http:\/\/www.holybro.com\/manual\/Holybro_Kakute_F7_Manual.pdf We are using a stackable 4-in-1 esc from HolyBro which can connect all the motors to a single stackable board. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14144,"featured_media":0,"parent":31,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/no-sidebars.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/uav\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/uav\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/uav\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/uav\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/uav\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/uav\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/uav\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/111\/revisions\/470"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/uav\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/uav\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}