 Hi guys, now this is a bit of an intro into iNav and getting the board to start off with. Now not all boards are the same, as you can see we've got bigger boards, this is like a fixed wing and then you've got your smaller boards for the smaller multi rotors. Now this is just going to give you a quick intro into maybe what to look for in a board. Now first of all I'm going to say that you probably don't want to be playing around with the old F3 stuff. It's just an old board, there's no real real point and I think that they're not even being supported very much anymore with iNav anyway. Now you may want to go after a board like this but I'd say these socket things can be a bit of a pain in the backside. One thing that gets me about it is the wires are hard, they're more like this sort of wire which is plastic shielded rather than a silicone which you can then twist together which helps you reduce or actually eliminate these wires becoming antennas and bringing any interference through on them which of course you know you don't want around your flight control and you don't want it especially within your video signal. Having an on-screen display built into the board is important, maybe you're going to want that anyway you know there are the minimum OSDs and I've still got some of those and I was using that when I had my when I was using the F3. And that goes to show really how long things have been the way this is because I've really been flying for about three and a half four years and skipped nearly a year because of the lockdown and we've gone from me coming into this and playing around with these F3 boards onto F4s and now there's F7s. I don't have an F7 board, I don't really see the point from me actually having one. I mean I'm sure they're super for you know the high speed tricks and flips and bits and pieces but I just like flying that things around. I'm not able I don't think to really play that successfully like that without destroying stuff and I can't afford it that's not can't afford just keep breaking stuff just because you know I can't afford it at all. I tried one of these little this is just like I think this is called the cement pilot kind of exactly what it's up put it up on the screen quick. I didn't really get on with it but the main problem that I had with it was going out on a cloudy day I couldn't get any GPS and this I don't know how you set it up without using the GPS at this time maybe there is a way doing that maybe somebody knows stick in the comments and that'd be great because then I could get this a go again but you know where where I am a lot of time is overcast anyway on a nice sunny day yeah it was okay but as soon as it was overcast couldn't do very well so that to me was not really good and then there's like this this is a Matek F405 great board this is the DOSD so it's I don't know it's promoting it's got an on-screen display but it does have an on-screen display but what it doesn't have and this is what I found at this board to be no good for me because on a multi rotor you want to have a compass if you're going to be using anything like return to home or anything like that you've got to have a compass this doesn't have the facility for a compass there's no where serial data or serial clock on this board so you can't use a compass but it's okay in a fixed wing because in a fixed wing because they're the GPS and the craft knows the flight control knows that you're always going forward it you know it doesn't need a compass it knows you're going forward so it knows which direction you're going in a lot of time with a multi-rotating that you can sit in 3D space hover turn around do all sorts and you need a compass for all so that's no good but the one that I've sort of settled with within this build and let's switch over to this in a bit with this build and I think it's still on my little wing as well is one of these and this is the Matek again this is the F405 STD and this is great because this covers all areas one it's the F4 so it's fast enough for my type of flying and for the most general flying easily it's got a built-in on-screen display which is here this chip here it's one of the this this is good for inside a fixed wing a bigger wing because it's pinned I've pinned mine you don't have to pin them but I've pinned mine just because it's easier and if you damage your your wing beyond repair or where you're going to take it all apart it's quite easy then to have one of these in it I velcro mine's some decent velcro I think that's the brand name hook hook and loop or something and and it holds it in great but you've got all that on here and of course it gives you the ability to put the serial data a serial clock so you can have your compass you can have the GPS and the compass so this is great for multirators again you don't need to use the the compass so you can actually put it inside a a wing and use it for a wing if you wish and not only that that's something else to say about these is today it's not just about wings you can put this in a boat a submarine you can build yourself a submarine or a car they call it the rover and we're going to take a look at that next we're just going to connect up and we're going to see just a few of the options on what you can actually do with one of these flight controllers right guys before we can actually do anything with this we've got to get it connected up to the computer and we need it in dfu mode because we need to boot we need to put some software on here so you'll see on this one this is the uh then that's it they're all pretty much the same on these df 485 boards of sd std whichever it's going to be the same uh you just kind of make sure you get this in the right way around press this button a little button just now we're just going to press that hold that in connect in and you get a single a single red light and on to the screen there and we're going to have dfu and now as you can see here we've opened up we've got this uh dfu at the top which means we're in boot mode and we can go into the firmware flasher but just before we do that let's just have a little look down here you see that here it says hardware the application supports all hardware that can run iNavmatic 405 wing matef722-se and many others all right so you've got full list of hardware there you can check that out by clicking on that link we're not going to do it in this video the firmware sources etc but what we're interested in just to make sure that we can um actually connect to the device to fly controller is we need to make sure we've got these stm usb vcp drivers in now you can download them from there from the st micro micro i can't always call um from the website just by clicking on the link there st.com and uh you can download that and then zadig you may need or if you'll have trouble using the dfu now i'll do that in another video probably directly after this but just for now we're going to just assume you've got those in and we're connecting the dfu we're now going to go into the firmware flasher now it's loading up in the background it says here choose a board so we are using just for this at this minute and time the board down there is the amatic f405 osd so that's what we're going to look for we're going to go down the list until we get to this whole bunch of matics here but the one that we want is the 405 osd on the actual craft we're going to be using the standard std version which is just basically the matc f405 but just for this for clarity we're going to put this in so we're going to get the latest software here that's the 301 and then we're just going to load that oh this you can just leave there's no reboot this would normally be this this way anyway with the software by default and you can normally leave that so we're going to download that bit of software there's going to be a whole bunch of stuff down here including changes you know from the release notes sort of grading blah blah that yeah you should take a look through if you haven't read it already uh some of this may maybe things that you might just want to fly as you go along but you can see there's a whole bunch of changes in there which is good but we're not consuming that right for this minute we're just going to go down the bottom we're going to say flash firmware and we can just watch it flashing away there oh well it's doing the raising if you look on the actual device there it's just got a single red led as it's still doing the raising won't take very long just a few moments to do this okay now it's flashing again single led because we're in the boot load mode once it gets the halfway across this bar it's finished flashing it just does a quick verification just to make sure this is all done again done so now it's going to sort of reboot itself i prefer personally just to take the power out and put the power back in again do a recycle so that's what i'm going to do just going to disconnect we're not going to hold in the boot button this time reconnect and now we can go into the welcome page we can see that comm 6 is active for us and the speed there for our connection hit connect now the first thing we're going to be asked is what is it we're going to be building here and we got a mini quad with three inch to seven inch propellers an airplane with a tail an airplane without a tail which is a wing delta etc etc all rovers and boats so yeah that that thing where you can build yourself a boat submarine even and a rover a car that seems pretty cool too so that's the lovely thing about this why not it's it's always developed and it's pretty cool but in this instance we're just going to quickly go in for this for the three to seven inch propeller multi-rotor and it will reboot for itself you might have to give it a few moments for it to set that software drop and now we're going to just quickly look at the calibration we're going to skip that just for the minute we're going to go to the mix and l because we do want to choose the quad X now all this you don't really need to do anything we've got a multi-rotor up here we've got quad X here so we can see one two three four for our direction of travel of our rotors so we're just going to say load and apply that let's give us a warning head it's going to copy everything else so we'll let it do its thing again it'll reboot itself once it's done that those and take very long at all before you actually get something that you can look at look so now you can see on the screen there we've got a we've got a quadcopter now if I tilt this forward like this and that took forward if I go left like that tilt left right back and of course we can flip it over with us that's what we're just trying to set up here like this so I'm not we're going to go through this bit by bit because to go through the whole thing setting up everything you know we got some choices here to make with our ESC protocols and bits and pieces but most that's pretty straightforward and then the next one that we'd actually go to would be the presets and on this one for this particular setup which we will be switching over to this even this has got the same mattock a 405 board on it but it's the std the standard version and of course we know the difference with that is this board here it doesn't have the facility the sda the serial data on serial clock for your compass which you need if you're going to use a multirator so for this one then we're going to choose a six inch freestyle quadcopter six inch beaten the propeller size that we're going to put on there and it's going to set set us up with the paid filtering other such things for a quadcopter around this size and this is what you've got to do because when it comes to sorting out pins and things like that that's something you do as you progress as you go along this is going to give you a ballpark this is perfect for in this instance this for me because i've got a 1600 speed motors and it's six inch frame six inch props that's going to be the closest one for me so i'm just going to click on to that and it's going to set up d-shot 600 which would be no good for the ec's on the quad but we'll get around to that and i'll show you what you do about that uh 2k mo matrix filter improve mechanics blah blah and it's going to give us this base to run from this this stable in most instances make sure a mixture mixer was configured before applying any presets and we did the mixer already we made sure it was set up for quite x so again we're just going to say okay to that and it's going to go through but that's going to be it now um for this part because now we get to switch onto the other quad and start setting up the other bits and pieces be the serial ports and everything else so for this up to this