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12 years ago

Quadcopter using Cyclone II. How to implement gyro inputs and ESC outputs?

Hey guys, I'm planning on using de2 board as the brains of a quadcopter for my final project in digital systems design. The only experience I have with FPGAs and verilog are from this semester but I ...
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12 years ago

The problem I have with buying things from eBay is that they often don't come with the datasheet. It looks like the module on eBay uses I2C based but without the datasheet it's a (very light) paperweight. Either way, in order to communicate with anything you'll need to write / find an I2C interface and some sort of state machine / simple CPU to interact with that data..

-Mux