Storm 32 Brushless Gimbal Controller

[bigMouse]

Just for the hell of it I did a complete erase! Here is the settings I used to flash the board!

Couple of points:

I connected the storm board to the laptop via usb, this was to supply the board with 5v.
Also connected the USB/TTL to a laptop usb socket

Make sure you select the right comm in the right hand drop down box. If there is two or more their then unplug the USB programmer, re plug it in the laptop and see what comm is added, use that number!

For the bottom left comm port I used the other one that was showing in the last drop down list!(not the same one)

Don't forget to press the buttons prior to flashing! (and in the right order), after pressing the buttons the board should look dead, after flashing it reboots and lights up again.

Hope this is all clear

[MrBen]

All sorted, Im just printing a calibration cube for the IMU's

[bigMouse]

Looks good!

I made something like that once for an IMU on another gimbal, but had to make it out of wood! Much easier now with the printer!

[MrBen]

First flight, some horizon drift but I havent done a proper level 6 axis calibration yet.

QAV400 with DYS 3 Axis / Storm 32 Bit Controller

[bigMouse]

Looked impressive!
Noticed the horizontal drift, hopefully should be able to eliminate that with some tweaking!

[MrBen]

yeah Im hoping it just needs a proper calibration to get rid of that

same video again but in 1080p 60 fps

QAV400 with DYS 3 Axis / Storm 32 Bit Controller 1080p

[MrBen]

I designed this calibration cube for the main board (imu) and I'm getting a score in the 90's (less than 100 is good, 150 is acceptable over 200 in unacceptable)

Struggling to get a score lower than 250 with the calibration cube I found online for the small camera IMU though and I have tried 2 different IMU's (I got a spare) so Im just printing out my own design and will post it here if it works ok

[MrBen]

Just got a 103 score on the small IMU with this calbration cube, I put a small dab of uhu por on the IMU to hold it in place during calibration

[bigMouse]

I don't understand why the different calibration cubes are producing different results!

Is it more to it than just an accurate square box?

[MrBen]

Well the one I downloaded was originally too small to slide the IM inside so I reprinted it 3% larger but now the slot was wide enough but too tall and too short and causing poor scores. It also has a small surface area compared to mine I think the larger cubes are more accurate.

[bigMouse]

Yea that makes sense!

[MrBen]

http://youtu.be/OuOI3fbvz-4
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Even after good calibration scores on the imu's I still have some horizon drift to eliminate.

[bigMouse]

Don't know what to suggest!
At least it looks about the same in both directions!

[MrBen]

gonna re-calibrate and test again