Lynxmotion Quadrino FCT – MultiWii Made Easy ~ ROBOTs TECHNOLOGY

Thursday 28 May 2015

Lynxmotion Quadrino FCT – MultiWii Made Easy

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With the release of our Lynxmotion Quadrino Nano UAV Flight Controller, we developed an improved version of the Quadrino FCT (Firmware Configuration Tool) which allows for an easy to setup MultiWii experience. Furthermore, we included an algorithm that now takes your multirotor physical properties as well as other information to generate matching PID’s. This greatly removes the frustration of trying to takeoff with an un-tuned copter.

The FCT will guide the user in a step by step and user friendly interface without the need of using Arduino IDE and define lines of code for the hardware / setup they need. That’s the usual way to setup a MultiWii flight controller and this leads to a steep learning curve for the multirotor experience. The FCT will go over all the needed parameters and also cover the optional things available in the MultiWii code such as battery voltage alerts and fail safe settings.

Note that the FCT is not a fixed finished project and we will improve it’s capabilities whenever needed. We want the best MultiWii user experience available. Here are some of the FCT available setup pages.

Quadrino FCT – Board Selection

Quadrino FCT – Board Selection:

Since our FCT supports older versions, you can choose which board you have
Image shows the board selected for a visual confirmation
Automatically set the sensors and orientations for the board selected
Allow for Address and Sensors change for advanced users

Quadrino FCT – Copter Setup

Quadrino FCT – Copter Setup:

Multirotor Type drop down for all supported MultiWii configurations
Visual Drawing of the Multirotor Type chosen
Propeller Animation that tells the user the right direction for the multirotor type
Motor connection pin-out when mouse over the multirotor drawing
Include a PID generator

Quadrino FCT – Options

Quadrino FCT – Options:

Many options are available to be setup
Receiver type / GPS / Voltage Alarm
Most of them include test information for a better understanding

Quadrino FCT – Flash

Quadrino FCT - Flash:

The Flash page will Compile and Upload MultiWii to the Quadrino
Auto Detection on the serial COM
Quick Install / Start of both MultiWiiConf and WinGUI interfaces

Quadrino FCT – QUADX Animation

Here is a short animation showing the Copter page QUADX multicopter mode. Showing the actual propeller direction needed on the copter as well as the motor controller (ESC) connection to the Quadrino flight controller.

The FCT is available to download for anyone and can be tested without having a Quadrino flight controller. We also created a user manual that details every page of the software where we added more information about the various setup pages.

Quadrino FCT (Firmware Configuration Tool)

Lynxmotion UAV – Quadrino FCT User Guide V1.0

Lynxmotion Quadrino Nano Drone/UAV Flight Controller (with GPS)