Thursday, January 3, 2013

Designing rc2usb Module

Studying the solutions out there, for connecting an RC controller to the computer, a design for an RC receiver was devised.

A custom board, based on the ATmega328 (because most of the reference material is based on Arduino, they are really cheap right now and I already have a programmer for Atmel chips). With the newly released FT230X for serial over USB (because, let's try something new).

As such it should be able to read up to 8 channels from the RC receiver, with two connectors for servo testing. One with pass trough from channel 8 to manually control the servo, and one wired to the micro controller which will periodically  turn it left and right (useful to quickly test a servo with no RC controller or power supply for it near by).


FT230X part of the schematic


ATmega328 part of the schematic:


PCB design of the rc2usb board.

Well, this is the theory any way! Will it work as designed? only time will tell.

P. S. There is a tiny mistake on the schematics: capacitors C9 & C10 should be 47pF not 100nF. Damn you Copy & Paste!

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