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The 3000mAh packs use Sony VTC60 LiIon cells and the 4000mAh packs use Amprius Silicon Anode cells

I'm using the Starling 2 Max Outdoor GPS-denied Development Drone and was wondering about the specifications of its battery pack. Specifically, could you provide the mAh rating of the 2S 18650 Li-Ion battery that comes with the drone? Additionally, if possible, could you share details about the specific 18650 cells used in the pack?

@Moderator Have you gone through this document here: https://docs.modalai.com/qgc-wifi/ ?

i have a drone starling Max 2 and im connecting with the QGround Control but it doesnt work, im using ubuntu 20.04 and im following the bootcamp.
the Portal works but not QGround Control, please if you hace some recomendation or help for the conection i'll be wating for your reply. Thank you so much

I recently bought a Starling 2 Max drone. The propellers don't seem like they can be push fit into the motor slot. How do I connect the propellers to the drone? The quick start documentation seem to have a different hardware setup. Appreciate a speedy response!

@ryans911 Hi Ryan, none of our reference UAS currently have thermal integrated though there are a number of ways to connect a Flir Boson if you are building your own UAS

@jameskuesel That sensor is likely running a clock rate that is similar to the GPS frequency. There is copper foil you can use for shielding which could help

The PMD TOF Data is published from voxl-camera-server over MPA. MPA supports many clients per topic.

You can see an example of how to access the data programmatically here: https://gitlab.com/voxl-public/voxl-sdk/services/voxl-vision-hub/-/blob/master/src/voa_manager.c?ref_type=heads#L380

Is the data published topic that another subscriber can read? Or is the data locked and consumed by the obstacle avoidance while flying indoors?

Starling 2 Max is built using VOXL 2, which is an open development platform. You can find details on VOXL 2 I/O here: https://docs.modalai.com/voxl2-connectors/

@JoeAR_21 voxl-vision-hub handles VOA, not voxl-dfs-server

You can see the tof callback function in voa_manager here: https://gitlab.com/voxl-public/voxl-sdk/services/voxl-vision-hub/-/blob/master/src/voa_manager.c?ref_type=heads#L380

@Mouhamed-Ndoye Hi Mouhamed, the motor size is dictated by the ESC and not the flight controller. For that size drone, you likely need ESCs larger than we offer. In that case, you should use a flight controller that works with ESCs spec'd for your platform. VOXL 2 would be a companion computer in that case https://docs.modalai.com/voxl2-external-flight-controller/

@olearypa Hi, we asked around. It seems like it should work as is, but we have not confirmed or tried it

@Peter-Milani Hi Peter, it's not possible for us to answer comprehensively about NDAA compliance. We can answer country of origin questions though.

Our M0107, M0161, M0166 for instance are built by ModalAI in the USA
M0149 is built by a partner in Taiwan

@Pete Starling 2 Max is probably easier to configure for this. You could mount the Doodle radio on the bottom. The M0151 is a good expansion board for this.

@JoeAR_21 to correct VIO drift, voxl-vision-hub can correct using an AprilTag without any ROS involvement. If you just need to send the data to ROS for another purpose, you should extend voxl-mpa-to-ros to support tag detections

Source: https://gitlab.com/voxl-public/voxl-sdk/utilities/voxl-mpa-to-ros/-/tree/master/catkin_ws/src/src/interfaces?ref_type=heads

We love incorporating merge requests if you do end up with something useful!

The Starling 2 and Starling 2 Max will be supported for the foreseeable future. The Sentinel is less popular, so it is likely to be deprecated in 2025 but is currently marked as "Active Production" on its website

Dash speed, or burst speed, is the airframes capability when full throttle is applied for a short period of time. Batteries are typically able to discharge more current when first applied, but not for a sustained period of time.

@anghung said in How to use the USB Type-C interface on the board's ADB shell as a regular USB interface?:

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That is a USB OTG interface which will negotiate automatically with its peer device

@Jetson-Nano The M0173 kits include the IR filter on all sensors.

@Chase-Riley the recommended approach is to use J18 ESC port directly: https://docs.modalai.com/voxl2-external-flight-controller/#voxl-2-connecting-an-external-flight-controller