Pixhawk 1 Flight Controller

The Pixhawk^® 1 autopilot is a popular general purpose flight controller based on the Pixhawk-project FMUv2 open hardware design. It runs PX4 on the NuttX OS.

Originally manufactured by 3DR^® this board was the original standard microcontroller platform for PX4. While the board is no longer manufactured by 3DR, you can use the mRo Pixhawk as a drop-in replacement.

Assembly/setup instructions for use with PX4 are provided here: Pixhawk Wiring Quickstart

Quick Summary

• Main System-on-Chip: STM32F427
  • CPU: 180 MHz ARM^® Cortex^® M4 with single-precision FPU
  • RAM: 256 KB SRAM (L1)
• Failsafe System-on-Chip: STM32F100
  • CPU: 24 MHz ARM Cortex M3
  • RAM: 8 KB SRAM
• Wifi: ESP8266 external
• GPS: U-Blox^® 7/8 (Hobbyking^®) / U-Blox 6 (3D Robotics)
• Optical flow: PX4 Flow unit

Connectivity

• 1x I2C
• 1x CAN (2x optional)
• 1x ADC
• 4x UART (2x with flow control)
• 1x Console
• 8x PWM with manual override
• 6x PWM / GPIO / PWM input
• S.BUS / PPM / Spektrum input
• S.BUS output

Pinouts and Schematics

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

The board is documented in detailed on the Pixhawk project website.

Availability

This is no longer available. The mRo Pixhawk may be used as a direct replacement.

Build Instructions

make px4fmu-v2_default upload