Pixhawk Mount

 

Big Project

Project

Project Manager

Big Project

Project

Project Manager

Houston

Pixhawk Mount

@Smile Khatri

Task Description

Design and manufacture a mounting solution for our flight controller on the Houston airframe.

Current Pixhawk mounting:

pix2.jpg
pix1.jpg
  • Right now it’s just mounted with a yellow tack

Mount on these holes:

 

Constraints

Constraints

Written By

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Constraints

Written By

Append Date

Mounts to pre-existing holes

@Smile Khatri

2024-06-04

Light weight

@Smile Khatri

2024-06-04

Must have enough space to mount the 360 lidar as well

  • This mount can be found in PDM: Houston > Lidar > H24_LIDAR_A002_V2.2MOUNT

@Smile Khatri

2024 - 06 - 26

Relevant Contacts

Subteam

Contact

Contact Description

Subteam

Contact

Contact Description

Flight test coordinator

@Yuchen Lin

  • Will answer any hardware questions

Assignees

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Asana Task

Date

Assignee

Asana Task

Date

@Ben Lovegrove

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Date assigned

Task Progression/Updates

Author: @ Benjamin Lovegrove Date: 2024/06/24

Initial Design

Mount is designed to go in the diagonal slots in the frame on either side of the Pixhawk.

Bolt the Pixhawk by putting the bottom below the frame and top above and bolting with M3 bolts.

The top piece goes over the Pixhawk the short way in two spots, one above and below.

Author: @ Benjamin Lovegrove Date: 2024/06/27

2nd Initial Design

I realized that my initial design both covered ports and didn’t utilize the M2 bolts. It also interfered with the LIDAR.

For the new design space is now left so that the lights on either side of the Pixhawk remain visible and utilizes two mounting holes to secure the Pixhawk.

The mount then covers then goes over the middle of the Pixhawk and is secured with the M2 bolts.