HKPilot32 Flight Controller (Discontinued)

This flight controller has been discontinued and is no longer commercially available.

The Hobbyking® HKPilot32 autopilot is based on the Pixhawk®-project FMUv2 open hardware design. It runs the PX4 Flight Stack on the NuttX OS.

The HKPilot32 is software compatible with the 3DR® Pixhawk 1. It is not connector compatible, but is otherwise physically very similar to the 3DR Pixhawk or mRo Pixhawk.

HKPilot32

As a CC-BY-SA 3.0 licensed Open Hardware design, schematics and design files should be available here.

Key Features

  • Main System-on-Chip: STM32F427
    • CPU: 32-bit STM32F427 Cortex® M4 core with FPU
    • RAM: 168 MHz/256 KB
    • Flash: 2 MB
  • Failsafe System-on-Chip: STM32F103
  • Sensors:
    • ST Micro L3GD20 3-axis 16-bit gyroscope
    • ST Micro LSM303D 3-axis 14-bit accelerometer / magnetometer
    • Invensense® MPU 6000 3-axis accelerometer/gyroscope
    • MEAS MS5611 barometer
  • Dimensions/Weight
    • Size: 81x44x15mm
    • Weight: 33.1g
  • GPS: U-blox® super precision Neo-7M with compass
  • Input Voltage: 2~10s (7.4~37V)

Connectivity

  • 1x I2C
  • 2x CAN
  • 3.3 and 6.6V ADC inputs
  • 5x UART (serial ports), one high-power capable, 2x with HW flow control
  • Spektrum DSM / DSM2 / DSM-X® Satellite compatible input up to DX8 (DX9 and above not supported)
  • Futaba® S.BUS compatible input and output
  • PPM sum signal
  • RSSI (PWM or voltage) input
  • SPI
  • External microUSB port
  • Molex PicoBlade connectors

Accessories

Availability

Building Firmware

Most users will not need to build this firmware! It is pre-built and automatically installed by QGroundControl when appropriate hardware is connected.

To build PX4 for this target:

make px4_fmu-v2_default

Debug Port

See 3DR Pixhawk 1 > Debug Ports.

Pinouts and Schematics

The board is based on the Pixhawk project FMUv2 open hardware design.

As a CC-BY-SA 3.0 licensed Open Hardware design, all schematics and design files are available.

Serial Port Mapping

UART Device Port
UART1 /dev/ttyS0 IO debug
USART2 /dev/ttyS1 TELEM1 (flow control)
USART3 /dev/ttyS2 TELEM2 (flow control)
UART4
UART7 CONSOLE
UART8 SERIAL4
© PX4 Dev Team. License: CC BY 4.0            Updated: 2024-02-13 22:49:01

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