Going to have to start my own build thread so I stop hijacking this one
But until I do....
Since my wife is working tonight and I'm on toddler watch I wasn't able to make too much progress...on the airframe.
I did make some good progress on the controller once the toddler was tucked away in bed. Got the WMP out of it's case...still too lazy to heat up the soldering iron (and until I build the frame and decide how things are going to be mounted I'm hesitant to do any final wiring anyway.) One order I placed on ebay for servo extensions came in - but it only had 2 because I misread the listing and didn't notice they were selling them per extension and not 10 at a time like most sellers
Still, I now have throttle, pitch and roll hooked up and working (Pitch is backwards but that's because I haven't setup a profile in my TX yet and am using the profile for my X1 which has the pitch reversed.)
I also hooked up the bluetooth module I ordered and it turns out that was a piece of cake to get working. Four little wires, quick pair with my phone...and boom 2 different WiiMC apps I downloaded were up and running and talking to the board like magic! Super happy to see that as I hoped this was an easy bit to setup and the interface on my phone is real easy to use. I haven't used a KK2 but I can't imagine a tiny LCD screen and 4 buttons surrounded by swirling blades of death can be any easier
I do have one new issue...but I'm not super concerned about it just yet. For some reason while both the PC based MultiWiiConf program and the apps on my phone show the gyro values changing when I move the WMP and show my stick values changing from my TX (once I remembered this is a new RX and I hadn't bound it yet)....the little artificial horizon and other indicators of what the "quad" is doing aren't moving anymore in either the PC conf program or the phone apps. I actually ran into this a few days ago when I was experimenting with hooking up the nunchuck so I suspect it's a config value I messed up somewhere as it started after I tried calibrating the ACC. I'm sure I'll get it figured out at some point...I suspect it might be because with no yaw input I can't arm the board. Need to dredge up one more servo cable to test that theory.
Oh, also found the GPS I knew I had laying around over the weekend. Actually stumbled across it by accident while looking for something else
Unfortunately I now remember why I haven't used that GPS for anything. It's got a prolific PL2303 serial to USB on board and only has USB output. And while I'm not scared of soldering most SMT components...this little QFN sure doesn't look easy to hook into, and I've never finished tracing out the circuit to figure out how to power it without USB. Though since MW doesn't have very good GPS support yet I'm not in a big hurry.
Here's tonight's iteration with the caseless WMP, 3 channels hooked up and the Bluetooth module. I'd have the Nunchuck ACC in there as well but my tri-lobe screw driver isn't long enough to get the nunchuck open...going to have to get creative on that tomorrow