openXSensor for old Ardupilot Hardware?

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Guzzi
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openXSensor for old Ardupilot Hardware?

Post by Guzzi »

Hi

I have some older Ardupilot hardware lying around. These are following boards:
Crius AIOP v1.0
Crius AIOP v2.0
APM 2.5
These Boards are all based on the ATMega2560 Microcontroller and the same Sensors as: MPU6050, HMC5883L, MS5611-01BA01. Since Ardupilot discontinued the work on these boards they’re being not much used anymore. So I stumbled on to the awesome possibility to use arduino hardware as Sensor for Telemetry RC System.
I'd like to reuse my old boards for my FRSKY receivers as Sensor HUB's. I'm not really a programmer but I managed to write some really simple programs on Arduino. But to relabel all the Pin's in the openXsensor application is a bit over my abilities.
So my question is: how much work would it be to get openXsensor running on the mentioned boards above?

Thanks for your Answers and Help

Guzzi

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Re: openXSensor for old Ardupilot Hardware?

Post by mstrens »

oXs uses direct acces to most MCU registry.
So I expect it should not be so easy to convert it to ATMega2560.
For a vario, you just need a GY-63 and a pro mini. On ebay/aliexpress, it cost about 7.5€. It seems me much easier to buy those components than to change the code.
If you want also a MPU6050 and HMC5883 you can use a gy86 module which is about 10 €
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