Autonomous drone teardown.

That's a ludicrously functional chip for what it costs. It does at least seem to have the same pin count.

Big Clive

and just thought I’d add my thoughts I think one of the chips is a variant of the mpu6050 gyroscope this is a three axis chip but can process upto nine axis of info, so I guess it is being input by the ir data as a crude version of obstacle detection on some of the spare channels hence it dose not work to well lol

was just watching your entertaining tear down of the drone (hope the beard dint suffer to bad)

Hi Clive

That's the second bench. I should film at it more, but it doesn't feel as "comfy" as the other messay bench.

Big Clive

Interesting tear down but I was more interested in actually seeing your bench! I’m guessing you gave it a little tidy prior to filming this though from your previous descriptions of its usual avalanche tendency

My gold one wouldn't fire up, so they said keep it and sent me the Mini Green UFO which I'd had sat unused for months. Until trying it yesterday, where it was most responsive during flight. I do recall them hinting at the time, that there had been an upgrade. Whether that be to firmware or software.

Andrew Donaldson

So if the regulators are off, has that also actually cut power to the microcontroller? If yes, then it wouldn't be able to re-enable the regulators to boot up. Is that where the IR LED enable by the power button comes in. The IR LEDs would leak enough power into the LED sink pins on the micro to crudely start it up. At which point, it could enable it's own regulators and off it goes, booting up.

It's like someone watched "Batteries Not Included" and said: "Let's make those..."

I agree that little square chip is most likely a combination sensor chip. My guess is that it is it is using an air pressure sensor (the little hole) for altimeter duty and probably it also has some kind of accelerometer for gyro duty. There may be more going on in there, such as a magnetometer for compass duty.

Brendan Meteer

Great cat toy!

Mike Hughes

Hmm, it occurs to me that I just recently re-watched that episode of Snarl Wars: Attack of the Drones.

Martel DuVigneaud

I still have a bunch of those motors. The colors on the wires are pretty standard. I think what you may be running afoul of, Clive is custom silicon that has evolved specifically for quad copter toys over the years.

Michael Thompson

So, despite all that amazing on-board technology, it is still as 'blind as a bat'.

Andrew Donaldson

I bought a pack of accupuncture needles. I insert them into the alligator leads of my meter. The needles are so tiny and flexible that i can use them to do continuity testing of ver small pitch surface mount chips. You can also do voltage measurements, but it can be hard to put enough pressure on the needles to get a good reading

Jeremy Impson

You can start a side business, beard and hair cutting in a time of social distancing. :)

I love those little motors. I used two of them on a little balsa wood rubber band model airplane on the wings with the smallest lipo battery and switch. Once I got the weight balanced it took off and slept going. The sad ting is that I never recovered it.

Charles Bruckner

Anyone else thought that the pie dish will make an appearance as soon as he started snipping at the battery 😅?

AMK

OH god right when it Gott caught in your beard I was taking a sip of soda. Wow that clean out the sinuses. Painful.

Charles Bruckner

4 times I had to show you getting it caught in your beard. I think my wife is taking over my patreon...

Neil Tonks

I love the way they are made and work, keep away from black beards

I was deep into custom building quad copters for a bit, but it was a mistake for me. I liked building more than flying and I didn't want to break what I built! Radio, like an old friend and ally was the true path for me.

Michael Thompson