Month: March 2019

The great day on which two units equipped with three-axis accelerometers and new flight-logbook recording feature have finally reached their happy owners. The first one is about to start its fruitful career in a Piper 28 while the second found its home in an (to me) odd-looking Morane-Saulnier MS.880 🙂

Despite their confusing micro-USB connector they can be powered directly from the 12V power rail (4 to 15V to be exact). Naturally they sport all the sweet features like the previous development stages – here I’d like to highlight bluetooth communication delivering surrounding traffic information, over-the-air updates and logbook downloads directly to an Android-based phone or tablet (the app will come later, I promise 😉 ).

Currently I’m experimenting with various models of the enclosure: from the top – slim (for simple micro USB-power, 17mm of height), regular (RJ45, 20mm) and finally a thick boxes for the battery-powered variant (24mm).

Are you familiar with saying “I have a friend who has a friend..?”

I have a friend who has a friend who can solder.. and I mean really, really well! Using a microscope in combination infra-heating chamber he managed to solder that tiny 3x3mm chip with 24 (no-)legs and it works in all three specimen he produced. I have never seen such a great and clean job before! Awesome!!

It’s so delightful! Just look at that beauty!

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This also means we could verify the PCB design is correct and thus we can start truly “massive” production. Even after some had indicated they have no use for such a lovely accelerometer and wish the board to be unpopulated in that spot (complications, grrrr!) But for the other not-so-blindfolded individuals I presume this would be a nice to have extended functionality 🙂

Stay tuned as further detail on OGN CUBE3s build will come shortly!