@Chris-Stratton said in Using an Omega 2+ with an expansion board as a fixed wing flight controller:

the smaller (and therefore twitchier) the aircraft,

The drone i'm designing is around 80cm wide, 50 long, and I don't need it to be particularly twitchy. I see what you mean about a system that needs to be simple, and very stable, so that a failure doesn't lead to a Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly. will comment again later when not busy

Hey there,
I got bored over my summer holidays, so I drew out a design for a fixed wing 2 or 4 engine drone. As I am wanting to get back into coding, more specifically into coding with my Onion Omega 2+ that I got, played with, bricked, fixed, and never touched again, I thought to myself that if I could code a program that could run on my OO2+, that would go into the drone and actually act as a flight controller, wouldn't have to spend too many moneys on more expensive pre-built flight controller that might not actually fit my purpose. Plus coding experience with this would help me with developing other programs for my OO2+, mainly to do with rocket control and sensor use.

So this is where this post, and by extension the reader, comes in. Do you have any tips for me in this projects developmental phase? What do you think I should do/use?

I will continue to update this thread with development as I go through the steps. Attached below is a first draft of what the drone would look like from the top. If need be, I can go into specifications of the drone, and other information about what I want it to do further down the line.

Drone Preliminary Design 1: [https://imgur.com/a/xEYRi]

Dankeschun,
Orion

(I'm Australian, not German, please don't talk to me in German I will not understand you.)

I am tempted to use a USB firmware install, but I would first like to ask you guys your opinions.

Basically, my problem is the same as (https://community.onion.io/topic/1191/well-i-think-i-bricked-it-resolved/5), but after a long time (3 hours of waiting), the Omega hasn't booted up. I haven't used it in a while, and the old firmware was something like b163. I had been working fine ever since I got it, and this has been my only major problem as of yet.

A little checklist:
The setup was correct, and it was working before today,
All connection ports are in correctly, and the power connector is fine,
I have an Omega 2+ and an expansion board and a Sandisk ultra 16gb MicroSD card in the chip's slot.

I can load up a console, but all I see is

" Failed to Execut"
and then when I press enter it reads out
"Please press enter to activate this console"

and then it cycles like that whenever I press a button.

pictures of the device and command line will come soon. I do not believe that the power cable is the problem, I believe it is a hardware or a firmware problem. All help and suggestions are welcome, as I would like to get my Omega (2+) up and running again for a project of mine that needs it or another similar device.

Feel free to ask questions, and I will answer them to the best of my ability

Omega gods, please no RIP my device