Signals Board

The signals board is our plane's sensor extension, enabling us to collect data from sensors not built into the Pixhawk flight controller. The most important data it collects is temperature data from the ESC, batteries, and air inside the plane to warn us of potential overheating during flight. We are in the process of adding current measurements to provide real-time power usage during flight. Adding a sensor involves first writing the code to collect data with the Arduino, and once that is done wrapping the Arduino code in the C MAVLink library so that the Arduino can communicate with the Pixhawk over Serial connection.