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Lab 7 - Controller Modifications

Group Members -

Nolan Lach, Jacob Sieber, Ryan Pirro, Elijah Meadows, Madison Baker, & Venkata Devapatla

Introduction

The purpose of this lab was to prepare these controllers for the Believer aircraft so that they would more compatible with them while operating. In this lab, our group worked together to physically modify and install software on to two FrSky Taranis X9D controllers. One half of the team handled the hardware modification on one controller while the other half, including myself, installed software onto an already modified controller.

Software instillation - DAXT Controller #1

On the F-Sky controller, First we backed up the controller within its internal screen. This was done within Radio Settings. Then we plugged a usb cord to downloaded the Edge TX from our TA’s computer. The reason we had to use his is because his computer had the specific drive disc needed to connect and download the software to the controller. From that point

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Hardware instillation - DAXT Controller #4

First we identified the differences between the unmodded and modded controller. The main thing we were looking for was which switches were removed on the modded controller versus the ones we had to remove. The purpose of removing certain switches was because they were no required for the Believer operation, and could serve as a safety risk on the field.

First the collars had to be removed from the switches, and some needed the caps removed from the knob switches in order to be properly removed. Then the hardware group took off the back cover, it had 6 screws. The switches that we being moved were simply being put inside of the controller housing using hot glue to hold them in place. This was done in order to not overcomplicate the modifications, and make it easier to reinstall them if they want to be added back at a later point.

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The placement of the switches inside the housing was very important, in order to not interrupt the movement of the two joysticks on the controller. Doing this could make the controller not operate properly and could possibly damage inside electronics if the joysticks are pushed forcefully when partially blocked. After all the switches glue had dried. We made sure the newly modified controller did not interfere with any of its joystick movement, then screwed the two sides of the controller back together.

Finally, after the controller had been modified and put back together, we tested it one more time to see of the joysticks were obstructed, we double checked this step because it proved to be a problem for previous groups doing this lab.

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