{"id":292,"date":"2012-06-05T21:05:49","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T21:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ava.upuaut.net\/?p=292"},"modified":"2012-06-05T21:05:49","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T21:05:49","slug":"new-hardware-%c2%b5avanut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ava.upuaut.net\/?p=292","title":{"rendered":"New hardware \u00b5AvaNut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ava2 PCB worked great although it did have a few design flaws, the temperature sensor for one. Having taken inspiration from <a href=\"www.rfhead.net\">Darkside<\/a>\u00a0I wanted a robust but small tracker that encompassed everything I&#8217;ve learnt about making PCBs. The design criteria was as small as possible, NTX2 based with a Sarantel antenna. This unit isn&#8217;t for pico flights (although its entirely viable to use it as such as it is very light), I&#8217;ve designed it as a robust workhorse and backup tracker.<\/p>\n<p>Enter \u00b5AvaNut :<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ava.upuaut.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_0863.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-293\" title=\"\u00b5AvaNut\" src=\"\/\/ava.upuaut.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_0863-1024x384.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ava.upuaut.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_0863-1024x384.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ava.upuaut.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_0863-300x112.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As usual at its core is a Arduino Pro design with a number of changes, I have a lower drop out (250mV) and beefier regulator (250mA),\u00a0Abracon 8Mhz Crystal , uBlox MAX 6 GPS and the\u00a0ubiquitous NTX2 on the rear.<\/p>\n<p>Hope to fly this soon<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ava2 PCB worked great although it did have a few design flaws, the temperature sensor for one. Having taken inspiration from Darkside\u00a0I wanted a robust but small tracker that encompassed everything I&#8217;ve learnt about making PCBs. The design criteria was &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ava.upuaut.net\/?p=292\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ava.upuaut.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ava.upuaut.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ava.upuaut.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ava.upuaut.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ava.upuaut.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ava.upuaut.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294,"href":"https:\/\/ava.upuaut.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions\/294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ava.upuaut.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ava.upuaut.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ava.upuaut.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}