STM32F4 Devboard

In my last post I mentioned wanting to split the Bluetooth receiver into a separate stack. The main reason for this being that the ESP32-C3 does not have enough...

stm32

stm32f4

electronics

kicad

pcb

devboard

rust

c++

embedded

March 27, 2023

Icarus Flight Controller

Drone assembly and initial testing

Not a lot of progress this month but I did get the drone assembled and electronics wired up. The Icarus FC is mounted above...

drone

electronics

icarus

February 22, 2023

Icarus Flight Controller

Icarus Sensors and Visualization

This post will cover visualizing sensor data collected over Bluetooth from the controller. Graphics Library Bevy seems to be the all around best choice for graphics in Rust these...

flight-controller

ble

rust

embedded

esp32-c3

esp32

bluetooth

February 21, 2023

Icarus Flight Controller

Icarus Bluetooth Client

The Rev C design of Icarus uses an ESP32-C3 MCU which supports Bluetooth. I chose Bluetooth as I thought it would make a decent option for a primarily indoor...

flight-controller

ble

arduino

rust

embedded

esp32-c3

esp32

bluetooth

January 29, 2023

Interfacing with ESCs

Given the failure to get significant lift from using small brushed DC motors mentioned in a previous post, I’m opting to interface with real drone hardware. Now, I was...

drone

electronics

embedded

esp32

esp32-c3