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Add brushless gimbal code to multiwii?

Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 9:12 am
by RCvertt
Can multiwii do brushless motor camera gimbal movments instead of just servo movements?

Re: Add brushless gimbal code to multiwii?

Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 8:27 pm
by Crashpilot1000
And how do you solve the problem of the BL motor position feedback without attaching the mwii to the gimbal ?? A potentiometer - like in the servos?

Re: Add brushless gimbal code to multiwii?

Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2013 8:53 pm
by fiendie
Crashpilot1000 wrote:And how do you solve the problem of the BL motor position feedback without attaching the mwii to the gimbal??

By doing exactly that: attaching the board to the gimbal ;)

Re: Add brushless gimbal code to multiwii?

Posted: Thu Aug 15, 2013 10:15 pm
by RCvertt
So I take it that MultiWii can't do this yet?

MultiWii has a #defined option for being used as just a gimbal controller, but that still only moves servos and not a brushless motor, correct?

Re: Add brushless gimbal code to multiwii?

Posted: Sun Aug 18, 2013 3:18 pm
by Crashpilot1000
Ah, Ok, i see what you want. It shouldn't be too much hassle once you have flashed some ESC with a special FW for the BLG motors. Perhaps you should ask OlliW, he has done a lot of work in this area: http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1858164 .
Maybe "ronco" from flyduino has some FW for his ESC as well.