CF2 barometer not working

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mueee
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CF2 barometer not working

Post by mueee »

Hej,
the barometer on my Crazyflie 2 seems not to be working properly - i just read back a constant negative value (see screenshot).
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The value varies at every startup of the CF.
I'm using the firmware version 2015.08.1 (also tried version 2014.12.1) and cfclient version 2015.08.
Can this be a software/firmware issue, or is this rather a hardware problem (e.g. broken sensor / bad soldering)?
Can anyone suggest any debugging steps? Which component on the PCB actually is the barometer?
Thanks in advance!
Cheers!
arnaud
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Re: CF2 barometer not working

Post by arnaud »

Hi,

This looks quite strange. The pressure sensor is the only small square chip on the bottom of the Crazyflie. Because you are getting a value at startup it does not look like a soldering issue but you can always try pressing a bit on the chip to see if it helps. It is U10 on this placement file: https://wiki.bitcraze.io/_media/project ... bottom.pdf
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