APM 2.8 Flight Controller with Built-in Compass

This flight controller is ideal if you want to build your own drone and become an electronic geek in the future. The flight controller determines the intended speed for each of the four motors using the information obtained by the sensors. The Electronic Speed Controllers (ESCs) receive this desired speed from the flight controller and convert it into a signal that the motors can interpret. This controller for flight

An improved version of the 2.5 and 2.6 APM 2.8 Multicopter Flight Controller comes with an integrated compass for FPV RC drones. The APM 2.6 flying controller and the sensors are identical. With the use of a jumper, the module can use an external compass in addition to the built-in one. Because of this, the APM 2.8 is perfect for use with rovers and multi-copters.

Completely open source autopilot software is available as the APM 2.8 Multicopter Flight Controller. The technology that won the prestigious Outback Challenge UAV competition is this best-selling product. It gives the user the ability to rotate any fixed rotary wing. Furthermore, it makes multirotor vehicles—including automobiles and boats—fully autonomous. In the interim, it can carry out GPS missions that have been preprogrammed with waypoints.

APM Flight controller Using the built-in compass:

To utilise the integrated compass, only connect the jumper as indicated below. When the compass jumper is removed, the APM board will make use of the external compass.

Powerful ground control software features:

Your APM board can be configured and controlled using the mission planner software that can be downloaded:

Google Maps’ point-and-click waypoint entry method.
Choose mission instructions from choices that pop down.

Download and examine the mission log files.
Set the APM parameters according to your airframe.
To develop a complete hardware-in-the-loop UAV simulator, interface with a PC flight simulator.
View APM’s serial terminal’s output.

Features :

1. Straight Needle
2. Arduino Compatible
3. Onboard 4 MegaByte Dataflash chip for automatic data logging.
4. Optional off-board GPS, a uBlox LEA-6H module with Compass.
5. One of the first open-source autopilot systems to use Invensense’s 6 DoF Accelerometer/Gyro MPU-6000.
6. Barometric pressure sensor upgraded to MS5611-01BA03, from Measurement Specialties.
7. Atmel’s ATMEGA2560 and ATMEGA32U-2 chips for processing and USB functions respectively.