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by michkrom
Sun May 24, 2015 4:07 pm
Forum: AR-T6
Topic: FlySky FS-T6 Schematic and Firmware Development
Replies: 52
Views: 113052

Re: FlySky FS-T6 Schematic and Firmware Development

One can use a pre-build cable to flash fw into TS-6, where custom or original.

https://www.google.com/#q=USB+download+ ... -CT6B/CT6A

Instructions here:

http://minkbot.blogspot.com/2015/03/fs- ... grade.html
by michkrom
Sun May 24, 2015 4:00 pm
Forum: AR-T6
Topic: FlySky FS-T6 Schematic and Firmware Development
Replies: 52
Views: 113052

Re: FlySky FS-T6 Schematic and Firmware Development

I would like to try flashing the original FW back to my transmitter, do I have to flash or erase the eeprom chip? No, no need to erase the eeprom. However, the content of eeprom will be lost as orig vs ART-6 are not compatible. Also does anyone know how to calibrate the sticks in the original FW? I...
by michkrom
Sat Apr 04, 2015 7:29 pm
Forum: AR-T6
Topic: Hack it to 8ch?
Replies: 0
Views: 7579

Hack it to 8ch?

Does anyone know if the Tx module can be "persuaded" to send all 8ch?

I have recently paired my FST6 an 8ch receiver. However, only first 6ch are getting to the Rx, despite the custom firmware ART6 _is_ generating PPM with 8 channels.
by michkrom
Wed Mar 18, 2015 4:39 pm
Forum: openTx
Topic: Port to FS-T6?
Replies: 3
Views: 3731

Re: Port to FS-T6?

Yes, I meant to ask for any potential technical problem and I meant to include myself as developer...

So, get my branch out or "next" and try it...

I think it would be a 9x built with ARM cpu kinda sort of target.
by michkrom
Tue Mar 17, 2015 5:18 pm
Forum: openTx
Topic: Port to FS-T6?
Replies: 3
Views: 3731

Port to FS-T6?

Are there any reasons for a port for FS-T6 would be hard to do? The FS-T6 hardware is somewhere between 9x and Sky9x board: STM32F100 @ 24MHz 128kB flash 8kB RAM 64kB EEPROM It's a 6 channel Tx w/ 4 switches, LCD similar to 9x. It does _not_ have 4 cursor keys but instead only a Left/Right rotator p...
by michkrom
Sat Mar 14, 2015 12:03 am
Forum: AR-T6
Topic: FlySky FS-T6 Schematic and Firmware Development
Replies: 52
Views: 113052

Re: FlySky FS-T6 Schematic and Firmware Development

I have just added a stand-alone makefile so the firmware can be build with plain arm-none-eabi toolchain (4.9.2q4) https://launchpad.net/gcc-arm-embedded/+download . Tested on linux an windows. Also we can now reprogram stock firmware to ar-t6 and back to stock with a CT6 data cable or a generic ser...
by michkrom
Tue Mar 10, 2015 4:47 am
Forum: AR-T6
Topic: FlySky FS-T6 Schematic and Firmware Development
Replies: 52
Views: 113052

Re: FlySky FS-T6 Schematic and Firmware Development

Along the same lines - I have recently discovered that for long time we were running the CPU @ 35MHz while it was speced @ 24MHz. It was running quite nicely overclocked, no complains( well tested only at room temp...)
by michkrom
Tue Mar 10, 2015 4:42 am
Forum: AR-T6
Topic: FlySky FS-T6 Schematic and Firmware Development
Replies: 52
Views: 113052

Re: FlySky FS-T6 Schematic and Firmware Development

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-il-zR-buNqQ/VFBtaSGM-CI/AAAAAAAAS4w/hS8aw19GWDs/s1600/P1180045.JPG Right Martin... it's a snowman's 8! Certainly an 8. The B is at the end and looks different. And, right you are - the flash does write and read all 128KiB! Verified by concatenating two FWs (FS and AR) and ...
by michkrom
Mon Mar 09, 2015 4:10 pm
Forum: AR-T6
Topic: FlySky FS-T6 Schematic and Firmware Development
Replies: 52
Views: 113052

Re: FlySky FS-T6 Schematic and Firmware Development

Is it 128KiB flash CPU or not? Unfortunately it does not appear so. The CPU on the board is STM32F100R8T6B. This decodes as follows (according to http://www.st.com/st-web-ui/static/active/en/resource/technical/document/datasheet/CD00251732.pdf ) STM32F100R8T6B: STM32 - 32 bit arm micro-controller F ...
by michkrom
Mon Mar 02, 2015 6:24 am
Forum: AR-T6
Topic: FlySky FS-T6 Schematic and Firmware Development
Replies: 52
Views: 113052

Re: FlySky FS-T6 Schematic and Firmware Development

>> But its issues, specially the range issue really puts me off The FW has no bearing on the range - this is a property of the transmitter module itself (and antenna). I.e. it's hardware limitation. I have been flying my 2 T6es to the limit of my sight and i did not see any range problems (no pun in...
by michkrom
Thu Feb 19, 2015 7:03 am
Forum: AR-T6
Topic: FlySky FS-T6 Schematic and Firmware Development
Replies: 52
Views: 113052

Re: FlySky FS-T6 Schematic and Firmware Development

IT FLIES!

The maiden flight of ART6 firmware - no crash (fw and model)!

http://youtu.be/NqC_zHI5ojs
by michkrom
Wed Feb 18, 2015 9:39 pm
Forum: AR-T6
Topic: FlySky FS-T6 Schematic and Firmware Development
Replies: 52
Views: 113052

Re: FlySky FS-T6 Schematic and Firmware Development

OK, this attempt looks much better after a fix to interrupt configuration. I am going to risk flying today...(crash) report later ;-)

http://youtu.be/aqvavWvj7O8
by michkrom
Tue Feb 17, 2015 7:49 am
Forum: AR-T6
Topic: FlySky FS-T6 Schematic and Firmware Development
Replies: 52
Views: 113052

Re: FlySky FS-T6 Schematic and Firmware Development

My first attempt to control a plane (on the ground). Not so successful. There appears to be an interruption in the ppm train about once a second. I did not see this on the scope, need to look closer!

http://youtu.be/bfuX1ElKe3Q
by michkrom
Fri Feb 13, 2015 7:20 pm
Forum: AR-T6
Topic: My custom firmware interface
Replies: 20
Views: 24713

Re: My custom firmware interface

Statically linked call is specific to the board because it uses board specific devices and GPIO pins to generate the ppm. Interfaces are optional. I was mistaken thinking libk is specifically & only for transmitters. The "board" part of libk is for well...specific boards and hence som...
by michkrom
Fri Feb 13, 2015 6:58 am
Forum: AR-T6
Topic: My custom firmware interface
Replies: 20
Views: 24713

Re: My custom firmware interface

Ok so the target for libk is the rc transmitter. Initially I though libk is aiming into a general MCU audience. The libk would provide a "hardware isolation" uppon which opentx etc could build a hw independent code? if one wants to have things like external devices working seamlessly regar...
by michkrom
Wed Feb 11, 2015 4:58 pm
Forum: AR-T6
Topic: My custom firmware interface
Replies: 20
Views: 24713

Re: My custom firmware interface

Cool, let's explore it further with the aim: "if/when/how to move to use your library" (art6/open9x/opentx?) IF I see big benefits: reuse device specific code for multiple projects, make application code more portable across different hardware (opentx/9x etc). I can see some potential prob...
by michkrom
Wed Feb 11, 2015 4:32 pm
Forum: AR-T6
Topic: FlySky FS-T6 Schematic and Firmware Development
Replies: 52
Views: 113052

Re: FlySky FS-T6 Schematic and Firmware Development

Moving discussion to "my custom library" thread.
by michkrom
Wed Feb 11, 2015 7:34 am
Forum: AR-T6
Topic: FlySky FS-T6 Schematic and Firmware Development
Replies: 52
Views: 113052

Re: FlySky FS-T6 Schematic and Firmware Development

Martin, It would be interesting to see if you can flash the original fw this way? Then, to check if the original's fw upgrade method (from system menus) uses this same stm32 bootloader? Btw, it's interesting library! How are you planning to avoid "least common denominator" effect for such ...
by michkrom
Thu Jan 29, 2015 7:09 am
Forum: AR-T6
Topic: FlySky FS-T6 Schematic and Firmware Development
Replies: 52
Views: 113052

Re: FlySky FS-T6 Schematic and Firmware Development

Potentially, the switches could be added to the ADC read chain, then ADC value stored in a var, and then the ppm/mixer routine would just probe the vars instead for wasting time for ADC conversion? Alas, there is work galore to make the current FW usefull...barely getting through mixer/limits/dr sys...
by michkrom
Wed Nov 26, 2014 5:39 pm
Forum: AR-T6
Topic: FlySky FS-T6 Schematic and Firmware Development
Replies: 52
Views: 113052

Re: FlySky FS-T6 Schematic and Firmware Development

The CMSIS is also distruted with STM32VL discovery board package AN3862 as found here: http://www.st.com/web/en/catalog/tools/PF257914# However, there is no license there from STM and only a very confusing statement in release notes: "The enclosed firmware and all the related documentation are ...
by michkrom
Mon Nov 24, 2014 6:32 am
Forum: AR-T6
Topic: Student/Trainer cable
Replies: 0
Views: 6184

Student/Trainer cable

Just made one out of s-video cable.

Notes here:
http://minkbot.blogspot.com/2014/11/fs- ... cable.html
by michkrom
Mon Nov 24, 2014 6:29 am
Forum: AR-T6
Topic: FlySky FS-T6 Schematic
Replies: 1
Views: 8836

Re: FlySky FS-T6 Schematic

Perhaps this be better titled - hardware etc.?

Found these pictures that the site climes were used for FCC certification.

http://www.mycoolrc.com/PICS/T6Internals.pdf
by michkrom
Thu Nov 13, 2014 8:18 pm
Forum: AR-T6
Topic: FlySky FS-T6 Schematic and Firmware Development
Replies: 52
Views: 113052

Re: FlySky FS-T6 Schematic and Firmware Development

master ar-t6 is up to date AFAIK

https://github.com/art103/ar-t6
by michkrom
Fri Oct 31, 2014 6:28 am
Forum: AR-T6
Topic: FlySky FS-T6 Schematic and Firmware Development
Replies: 52
Views: 113052

Re: FlySky FS-T6 Schematic and Firmware Development

Added rudimentary model selection and model name edit. Need to pull/merge to master... The gui code may use some generalization as there is a lot of boiler plate code. One idea would be a data driven+events for set/get/format and w/ standard types (int,string,enum) serviced by build-in stuff. This w...
by michkrom
Fri Oct 31, 2014 4:11 am
Forum: AR-T6
Topic: FlySky FS-T6 Schematic and Firmware Development
Replies: 52
Views: 113052

Re: FlySky FS-T6 Schematic and Firmware Development

Fixed the text edit - followed the overall edit style: 1) entering edit by pressing roller; the whole text of a field inverts 2) a small cursor (an underline) shows; it blinks; it can be moved left-right with roller; 3) pressing roller enters "character selection"l; cursor changes to big b...
by michkrom
Wed Oct 29, 2014 5:09 am
Forum: AR-T6
Topic: FlySky FS-T6 Schematic and Firmware Development
Replies: 52
Views: 113052

Re: FlySky FS-T6 Schematic and Firmware Development

Please!

In mean time here are the mods to get SWD connection on T6:

http://minkbot.blogspot.com/2014/10/fs- ... -hack.html
by michkrom
Tue Oct 28, 2014 4:08 pm
Forum: AR-T6
Topic: FlySky FS-T6 Schematic and Firmware Development
Replies: 52
Views: 113052

Re: FlySky FS-T6 Schematic and Firmware Development

Is there a way to have multiple threads related to AR-T6 fw work on the forum here? SWD The 4 wire connection did not work well for me. Lack of nSRST caused the system to hang/misbehave on each fw reload as the peripherals were not getting reset. So I have switched to 6-pin Stlink-V2 connection as i...
by michkrom
Tue Oct 28, 2014 5:46 am
Forum: AR-T6
Topic: FlySky FS-T6 Schematic and Firmware Development
Replies: 52
Views: 113052

Re: FlySky FS-T6 Schematic and Firmware Development

Hi, Just started to talk to Richard, forked his fs-t6, build, hacked my T6 and linked it with STM32F0Discovery and I am up and "cooking with gas" as they say around here :-). This Tx looks like a good one to hack and to play with and with great rev-eng effort by Richard - it is easy. Since...

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