The Quadrino Nano Flight Controller with GPS!
The latest Quadrino is 60% smaller yet is a total upgrade of the CPU, sensors, expansion ports and it now comes standard with on-board 50Hz GPS! All this mounted with anti-vibration rubber inside a beautifully designed case for protection.
Available now at the Lynxmotion web site.
Robotshop + Lynxmotion + FlyingEinstein Team Up
We are all very excited to finally tell you that Robotshop & Lynxmotion and Flying Einstein have teamed up to bring you the newest generation of Quadrino - The Quadrino Nano. Although this puppy is small, it packs more power and features than any Quadrino before it!
Read the full press release on PRWeb.
This has been a joint development with the Robotshop and their new Lynxmotion UAV division headed up by none other than Eric Nantel (previously of Dialfonzo-Copter).
"I've known both Lynxmotion and Robotshop from their roots because of my enthusiasm for robotics. Suffice to say I am very excited to work with them and the last few months have been a great experience in designing the Quadrino Nano together. There is much more to come!"
- Colin MacKenzie, CEO FlyingEinstein, LLC
- ATmega 2560 (256Kb flash @ 16MHz) Processor
- Compact, six layer PCB design with vibration dampening mounts
- Invensense MPU9150 sensor chip which includes Gyroscope, Accelerometer & Magnetometer
- MS5611 Barometer with foam cover
- Latest Venus838FLPx 50Hz GPS chipset with external antenna (SMA connector)
- NEMA serial output for OSD (On-screen display)
- 8 Motor speed controller outputs, 8 Radio inputs and Spektrum port, 5 servo outputs.
- Two free serial ports (use for SBUS and/or Bluetooth or 3DR radio links), 3x I2C ports
- 0.96” OLED port on-board
FP Quadrino Quick-Start Guide
See the full Quick Start Guide for step-by-step instructions. The blue boxes below are hyper-linked to the tutorials.
The Quadrino is available through dealers that can meet all your multi-rotor supply needs. For sales support contact any of our dealers in the USA, Canada and Internationally.
witespyquad.com (East Coast, United States and International)
www.hoverthings.com (East Coast, United States & International)
www.innov8tivedesigns.com (West Coast, USA and International)
ctrl.me (West Coast, USA and International)
www.flitelab.com (Canada)
Getting Support for your Quadrino
Our goal at FlyingEinstein and through our dealers is to get you flying as soon as possible and to keep you in the air. You are always supported through FlyingEinstein but you may want to contact your distributor for support on general issues regarding your multirotor copter. Your dealer may be able to get you flying faster.
Please, contact support by registering as a user and submitting a support ticket.
You are also encouraged to attend the Sunday @ 7PM (Eastern time) WebEx group discussions to address your support needs. These group discussions are intended to share knowledge and many new users find it very helpful getting started with the product.
The WebEx is your best resource for getting you in the air!
Warranty
We consider your satisfaction more important than having a bullet-proof warranty policy with catch-all clauses and complex lawyer speak. We feel the typical 30-day warranty policy is just not enough to service all customers needs in this growing hobby industry. Warranty requests will be considered on a per-request basis and for the most part your time of purchase is not a factor, although the general wear and tear state of the product may be. Bottom line is, contact us with any issues and we will do our very best to get you back in the air again and satisfied.
Replacement
We will do a replacement at our discretion of any unit that appears to have a manufacturing defect. What may first appear to be a defect is often the cause of wiring, ESCs, bad motors, un-tuned PIDs or simply a setup issue. We will first try to solve the issue with you over email, by phone or a webex meeting (computer desktop sharing), but if the problem can't be solved remotely a replacement unit may be shipped to you directly.
Repair
We do handle repair from time to time including, in many cases, for crashed units. Our service charges for repair are typically small and may often only be the cost of return shipping for the unit.
We know there are cheaper alternatives in flight controllers, but try to compare their support to ours!
FAQ
Q: What version of MultiWii is shipped on the Quadrino?
A: As of August 2012 all units are programmed with MultiWii V2.1. Some units purchased around that time may still be 2.0. Both 2.0 and 2.1 give excellent results, the altitiude hold seems to show some improvement in 2.1.
Q: What is the testing process from the manufacturing facility?
A: All units are tested under MultiWii Config to verify that all sensors work and produce sensible results. All the following systems are tested before shipping: PowerOn Test (HiPOT), USB connection, Atmel ATMega328P, Gyro, Acc, Mag & Baro. This is a working test of all electrical circuits. A regular number of units are also flight tested to maintain quality control. Also, all warranty units are flight tested before return shipping.
Firmware Config Tool
The easiest way to reconfigure and reflash the firmware on your Quadrino board is to use the Firmware Config Tool specifically for the Quadrino product. This easy wizard-like application will lead you through the process while providing lots of documentation on the various options and parameters you have available. When you are done selecting your options this tool will also compile and upload your custom firmware directly to your Quadrino board. It will also install the MultiWiiConf config GUI for you.
 Install Quadrino Firmware Config Tool Now |
Once you install the tool it will be available anytime in your normal Start | Applications menu under the Quadrino Tools program group along with the MultiWiiConf GUI. Once you have the tool it will also keep itself up to date automatically downloading any newer versions!
Flashing Firmware from the Source Code
For advanced users and MultiWii developers, using this method you will download the firmware source code for your version and use the Arduino development environment to compile and upload to the Quadrino board. This method is more suited to developers of the MultiWii community.
It is easy to create an Arduino IDE project directly from the Firmware Tool. Simply configure all your options and then on the Review step click "Open in Arduino" button near the top. The Firmware Tool will download the source code installing it in the appropriate Arduino sketch folder. Your new Arduino project will already be configured with the options you selected from the Firmware Tool. However, if you make changes to the files within the new project you cannot migrate these changes back to the Firmware Tool.
Where did the Dowload links to the Source Code go?
The Firmware Tool now provides both (1) direct customization and programming of firmware and (2) exporting to an Arduino IDE project. It no longer makes sense to create umpteen different source file packages for each MultiWii version and each Quadrino board version. Thus the direct links to firmware packages have been removed. You can also download the source code direct from the google code web site.
Revision History
1.0.25.1280
- Added CAMSTAB and related options (in Options | Camera)
- Added YAW configuration for Tricopters (in Options | Flight)
- User can edit the config.h template externally and call it my-config.h
- On the Welcome screen | click "Explore Files on Disk..."
- Enter the configs/{mwii-version} folder and find the existing config.h file
- Rename config.h to my-config.h so the Firmware Tool will not overwrite the config file again
- Edit and make desired changes to the file - do not edit anything in {?..} brackets!
- Added "Open in Arduino IDE" button to the Review page. Click this and easily open the source code with your config settings in the Arduino IDE and you're ready to click Upload or edit advanced options.
- Corrected a bug that caused the GPS option to check (enable) itself.
1.0.18 - 1.0.22
- Added Quadrino V3 board
- auto updating code space progress bar on certain options?
- Sensor drop downs no longer go disabled (gray). This confused some people into thinking the sensor was disabled.
- Added A0_A1_PIN_HEX option to Misc.
1.0.17
- Fixed compiler error due to mis-configured MAG_DECLINIATION. mis-configuration now defaults value to 0.0 instead of "(!)"
- Cleared up arrow hints on serial# page to be more user guiding.
1.0.16
- Added MultiWii 2.1 dev version, and implemented the server-based Firmware versioning configuration.
- Drop down list of firmware choices are downloaded from server configuration file.
- MultiWiiConf install files are also configured in this file.
- Added release notes link when these notes are available
- User notification when a new firmware version is available.
- Added arrow hints to click LOOKUP after a serial# is entered. Many users entered thier serial number but failed to lookup thier board data. Added a message box on success.
1.0.15
- [fix] disabling FAILSAFE no longer causes a compile error.
- Outputs code space used after programming.
- [server] data in server's tmp dir is now removed after file is downloaded.
- Can now automatically detect the Quadrino and select the right COM port.
- If the file was too large it would overwrite the bootloader!!! Now performs size check and suggests tips to user.
- Warn about OLED & GPS enabled and give a code size warning!
- Changed "Install MultiWii Config" button to "Start MultiWii Config" when the program is already downloaded and installed.
- Blue stable light didn't work when using the firmware tool. (Caused by define being overwritten in def.h)
- Added a warning about changing Serial COM speed and using the Config tool which always defaults to 115200 baud.
- Set Review page editor to read-only so editing of options via Review is not assumed. Hopefully we can enable this as a feature at some point in the future.
- Added MINCOMMAND option to the ESC page, not to b confused with MINTHROTTLE option. (Some ESCs require a lower MINCOMMAND than the default 1000.)
Latest MultiWii Firmware
The latest version of the MultiWii is version 2.0 Pre2 (2nd Release Candidate) released on March 13th 2012. MultiWii is working up to version 2.0 and this is the second candidate to having a stable version 2.
I've personally tested this out on the Quadrino and overall this is an excellent new release! Acro (gyro) flight is noticably smoother, it reminds me of the flight of a dragonfly! It's just smooth and maneuverable!
Autolevel now contains an auto tuning feature which is enabled in this firmware. This auto-trims the autolevel during flight. Trimming your autolevel was always a bit of a pain. It wasnt a hard process once you did it a few times, but it tripped up quite a few new users to MultiWii. Now we can look forward to great auto-leveling from the get-go!
Altitude hold works in this version with MS5611 barometers. Unfortunately however, most of you out there have Quadrinos with BMP085 barometers. So the work is not done and I am still hopeful that a solution for BMP085 is possible. This release is still young so it may not be long now before it works with BMP085. I havent given up yet.
With a little soldering skills it is also easy to upgrade your existing Quadrino to use a MS5611. There are two solutions, for V1D boards you can solder a MS5611 directly to the board - your board has an "unpopulated" PCB footprint for it. Second, and probably easier is to just buy a MS5611 breakout board and attach this sensor through the I2C sensor bus, you'll want to use the 4pin I2C header. I'll follow up soon with a tutorial on that.
Head-Free mode (Care-free)
MultiWii version 2.0 includes a new feature called Head-free mode that is great for beginner flyers or for times when you lose orientation of the copter. Do you fly in the dark? With Head-free mode the copter essentially has no "front" and roll/pitch will react according to your perspective. So no matter the copter orientation, joystick forward is fly away, back is fly towards you, left is bank left, and right is bank right. It's that simple and it works!
To illustrate, I had just got my Gaui330 flying again and due to some twisted arms I had a nasty yaw problem. The copter was spinning like a top a full 360 degrees about every 3 seconds. Instead of compensating with yaw stick, I turned head-free mode on. I flew my spinning top without any problem. It was pitch black out and all I could see is the blue stable light yet I could still fly the copter around even with it spinning!
[notice class="attention"]When upgrading from MultiWii 1.9 to 2.0 your accellerometer (ACC) sensor will read crazy. This is expected due to a change in the ACC scale/calibration. Simply place the quad on the table or floor as level as possible and hit the CALIB ACC button. Two seconds later all sensor lines will read normal again. The ACC Z parameter, in case you notice, will now settle at a 256 level as opposed to the old 512 level.[/notice]
Latest Firmware
So get to it, read the tutorial on Flashing your Firmware and try this release out!
Stable Version
Download MultiWii V2.1 for Quadrino Zoom "Rev 1D" with BMP085
Download MultiWii V2.1 for Quadrino Zoom "Rev 1D" with MS5611
Beta Version
Download MultiWii V2.1 DEV1 for Quadrino Zoom "Rev 1D" with BMP085
Download MultiWii V2.1 DEV1 for Quadrino Zoom "Rev 1D" with MS5611
MultiWii 2.0
Download MultiWii V2.0 for Quadrino Zoom "Rev 1D" with BMP085
MS5611 Barometer
On some boards sent out to developers a MS5611 baro was mounted on the board. Until March 2012 I could only get samples of the MS5611, 21 to be exact so the chances of having a V1D board with MS5611 are rare. Use the two image below to determine if you have a BMP085 or MS5611 barometer.
Download MultiWii V2.0 for Quadrino Zoom "Rev 1D" with MS5611
Older Firmware
The following are pre-releases leading up to the "stable" version 2.0.
Download MultiWii V2.0 Prerelease 4 for Quadrino Zoom "Rev 1D" with BMP085
Download MultiWii V2.0 Prerelease 4 for Quadrino Zoom "Rev 1D" with MS5611
Download MultiWii V2.0 Prerelease 2 for Quadrino Zoom "Rev 1D" with BMP085
Download MultiWii V2.0 Prerelease 2 for Quadrino Zoom "Rev 1D" with MS5611
Download MultiWii V2.0 Prerelease 2 for Quadrino Basic
MultiWii V1.9 is a good stable version that has shipped with most Quadrinos since December of 2011.
Download MultiWii V1.9 Stable for Quadrino Zoom "Rev 1D"
Download MultiWii V1.9 Stable for Quadrino Zoom "Rev 1D" with MS5611
Tutorials
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Start your adventure here! This diagram provides the step-by-step process from receiving your Quadrino to your first flight.
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The MultiWii Config GUI is where you can do your final flight controller configuration and see the sensors react in real-time. The Firmware Config Tool is the easiest way to get the MultiWii Config GUI. It automatically downloads the correct version matching your Quadrino's firmware…
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Before attempting to fly your multi-rotor copter for the first time you should ensure you have a calibrated ACC sensor. The calibration process is simple and takes only a few seconds.
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The magnetometer is a digital compass and is used in the MAG and HEADFREE flight features. A properly calibrated MAG will ensure these features work properly. The MAG cannot be calibrated at the factory because the earth magnetic lines vary depending on where you live…
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MultiWii Flight Controllers are capable of many flight modes such as Acrobatic, Auto-level, Altitude Hold and Head Free. By default only Acrobatic mode is activated so unless you are an advanced flyer you will want to start off with a flight mode that is easier…
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Icons are used on the PCB to indicate many features and/or pin signal type or polarity for wiring. These icons make wiring in the field simple even without a manual. Learn these symbols and you will be able to wire a Quadrino in the field…