It's been killing me not being able to talk about this
Can't wait to get my hands on a production board, the quality should be even better on them (These prototypes were mostly hand assembled, mine had a minor issue with one of the resistor arrays that I had to reflow) and the silk screen on the final boards should be greatly improved (the dRonin logo should look like the logo and not a misshapen blob.) The packaging for them is also looking pretty cool but that's still pretty hush hush
I was in a rush to get this in my hex to test fly - I was out of town when the boards shipped out to testers so I was running behind everyone else. But I still took a few minutes to take advantage of the through hole design to cleanup the wiring - with the PDB on the hex it was easy to attach everything from underneeth making for a super clean install:
That's fully wired for OSD with voltage and current sensing driving 6 motors on my hex. I'm running mine soft mounted mostly because the O-rings were already there on this frame. I still need to dig out one of my GPS's and a bluetooth module and take advantage of all those serial ports
There is passion behind this board. Icee designed it because of his frustration with the lack of fully sensored F4 boards at a reasonable price. Thankfully for me he has the time and knowledge to make this happen and his idea of what a FC should be matches up to mine pretty damn closely

DTF likes hardware that doesn't suck and has been working to improve his production abilities to help make better RC electronics a reality. I love his DTFc board for small racing quads...but it's not a great option if you're looking to run more motors and/or hook up a bunch of peripherals for more advanced autonomous flight.
I also still love my original Brain and plan to move it into something else...just debating what

I like the new RE1 Brain, but can't really justify the price on it and don't much care for the external extra cost baro and don't need the racing transponder. But can understand the decision to go that way since racing sells right now. I'd still like to see Brain really take advantage of that FPGA on there and do more cool stuff - though I'm not creative enough to imagine just what that cool stuff could be. I just know that's some nice hardware that's got a lot of untapped potential.
I'm also excited that with this board almost done software progress has picked up again

This next release has me really excited and the stuff on deck for the next one is starting to look potentially more exciting still!