You can configure Flip32 multirotor flight controller without USB.Have a rotorcraft that has two or more horizontal rotors?īicopters, Tricopters, Quadcopters, Pentacopters, Hexacopters, Octocopters, indeed any non-fixed-wing aircraft is very welcome here. Select FTDI COM/TTY port, set 115200 port speed and click 'Connect'.Connect FTDI to PC, run Flip32 configuration software ( Cleanflight for example).In case of RT port, with GV on left side, they goes as follows, from left to right: GND, 5V, RX, TX On FTDI, all connectors are described, so this is not a problem. With FTDI disconnected from PC, and Flip32 disconnected from battery (ensure no power on both sides) connect Flip32/Naze32 with FTDI in following order:.At the on of process, you PC should see new serial port (COM in case of Windows, /dev/tty* in case of Linux and Mac) In case of FTDI FT232RL chipset, this page can be used to download required drivers. Connect FTDI to your PC and install drivers if required.Use 4 goldpins and solder them carefully to RT port. By default, UART1 port connectors are not soldered to Flip32 board.Or visit local electronics store, ask friends.

The only problem is that you have to wait a few weeks. For example FTDI FT232RL from China on eBay.

If you do not have it already, buy USB to serial interface.

Plus, in a future, if we want to use Bluetooth, we will still need FTDI to configure it. In this entry I will describe first solution, with USB to serial interface. Cheap HC-06 Bluetooth module is widely used. This is very nice solution, since it's wireless telemetry.

use Bluetooth with serial interface connected to Flip32 and use your laptop's (or even smartphone) Bluetooth to talk to flight controller.

Usually it does not have a port that we can directly connect to UART. What about PC? Does it have one? Well, it depends. Software like Cleanflight already allows you to use any serial port to talk to flight controller. Flip32 (and Naze32) has build in hardware UART ports (as well as SoftwareSerial) that can be used to establish connection with a PC.

use different way to communicate with flight controller.

Might be the best solution, but since it's surface mounted micro USB, it's way above my soldering skills. Quite expensive since the only thing that is broken is USB port itself. What are the options in this case? Well, there are 3: It was flying, but not in the way I wanted it to. To make things worse, quadcopter was not tuned yet. Bottom line: unable to connect to flight controller board using USB cable. I've pulled USB cable and USB socket stayed on a plug. I became clear to me (again) when I've broken USB port on my Flip32+ multirotor flight controller.

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