MindPX NANOMIND 110 User Manual

NANOMIND 110

USER MANUAL

Highlights

- MindRacer in nano size frame, running MindPX & PX4 flight stack

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heavy lifter, maximum take-off weight up to 80 g

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5~7 minutes flight time

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full modularized, stackable, soldering-free assemble

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stackable style WEP expansion interface

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DroneCode compliant sockets

Website

www.mindpx.net

Contact

[e-mail]

V1.2
AirMind Inc.,

Ta bl e o f Co nt en t

Note This manual can be used with NanoMind 110 BNF/RTF Kit series, and NanoMind 110 Tiny-whoop BNF/RTF

series.

Important

Coreless DC motors have lifetime of about 10 hours of total flights. To avoid fast retardation it is

suggested to take 5~8 minutes break between flights.

Physical 3

Quick Installation 4

Power On/Off 6

Charging battery 6

RC Pairing 7

Arm/Disarm 7

Select Flight Mode 8

Flight Black Box - Using a SD Card 9

FPV Camera and Display (for tiny-whoop) 9

Connect to Ground Station 10

Calibrate New Remote Controller in QGC 11

Color LED Indicator 12

Support 13

Where to buy 13

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Physical

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NanoMind 110

WheelBase

110mm diagonal

Weight

35g (w/o battery)

Propellers

55mm

Flight controller / Processor

MindRacer v1.2 / STM32F427

IMU / Redundancy

10DOF / N

Motor

Coreless DC motor

ESC

N/A

Video transmitter (tiny-whoop only)

5.8GHz 40CH

Camera (tiny-whoop only)

600TVL PAL/NTSC

GPS support (optional)

Y

Optical Flow support (optional)

Y

Lidar support (optional)

N

Battery

300mah/650mah

Quick Installation

NanoMind 110mm nano-size quad comes within bind-n-fly package. All components you need to install
before flying simply are:

1.

propellers

2.

FPV camera (NanoMind tiny-whoop only)

3.

battery

Fig. 1 Quick installation

- Install the propellers

The propellers need to be installed in specified order as in Fig. 2. It is important to notice that installing
into wrong position will make the copter overturned and may cause serious harm.

Find the head of direction mark (‘Front’) on the frame, and align with the direction of head shows in Fig.2.
The 2 pull propellers (marked with ‘B’) should be installed on motor 1 & 2 (clockwise - cw), while the 2
push propellers (marked with ‘A’) should be installed on motor 3 & 4 (counter clockwise - ccw).

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2

Propeller

Battery

Fig. 2 Install propellers

- Install FPV camera (for tiny-whoop model only)

Other models can skip this step.

Mount the FPV camera on the front 2 hexagon studs as shown in Fig. 3. Connect FPV camera power cable
to the 5V output socket on the bottom frame.

Fig. 3 Install FPV camera

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Direction of head

2

3

CW motor

CCW motor

CW motor

CCW motor

Propeller ‘A’ (push)

Propeller ‘B’ (pull)

Propeller ‘B’ (pull)

Propeller ‘A’ (push)
Front

1

5V output socket

Mount FPV camera here
Direction of head

- Install the battery

The battery should be mounted on the bottom of drone. The bottom surface of battery and the top
surface of drone are all attached with nylon fastener tape by default. Place the battery on the position of
the nylon fastener tape, and give light push on the battery to make sure it is fastened solidly. Fasten the
pre-installed nylon belt around the battery to enhance the mount.

After mounted plug the battery connect to the power head on the tail of drone.

Power On/Off

Once the battery is connected to the power head of drone, all parts will be powered on. The main LED on
flight controller will turn to breathing blue and the drone is now ready for command.

Disconnect the battery when you finished a flight.

Charging battery

Battery can be charged through the built-in USB charger. Connect the USB port (type C) to any standard
5V output power source (like computer USB ports, power bank, etc.) and the charging will start. The
orange LED indicator is constantly on during charging. After charging is completed, the orange LED will
be out and the green LED will be on.

The power supply to flight controller and other components on the frame will be cut off once the
charging port is connected to valid power source.

Fig. 4 USB charger

Note Be careful not to mix the charger USB port with the USB port on flight controller. Charger USB port

is on the bottom plane of the frame (as in Fig. 4).

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USB charger port

RC Pairing

The remote controller needs to be paired with the drone before it can control the drone to fly. For RTF
option, the remote controller comes together with the drone is already been paired with copter by
default so you can skip this step.

Fig. 5 RC pairing

However with BNF option or for other cases you may need to pair/re-pair and do some setting with the
remote controller. To do that, !

1) remove the MindRacer flight controller on the top and let the bottom frame exposed.

2) Find the ‘bind’ button on bottom frame (take FrSky receiver option as an example as in Fig. 5) and use
this button to pair with your remote controller.

Note that some receiver does not need a bind button to do pairing so you can skip this step. Refer to
below’s list of pairing instructions for details.

Please follow the instructions from remote controller vendor to complete the paring procedure. You can
find detailed information about the paring procedure in following list of compatible remote controller
models that may come with NanoMind.

FrSky Taranis X9D/PLUS (S.Bus) pairing and setting instructions

RadioLink AT9/S (S.BUS) pairing and setting instructions

Spectrum DX series (DSM) pairing instructions

FlySky AFHDS2A series (PPM) pairing instructions

Arm/Disarm

Warning: before arm, please make sure no obstacle can be occluded with drone’s spinning propeller.

Note: by default MR210 uses mode 2 (throttle on left) remote controller. All guides below will be based
on left throttle pattern.

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‘Bind’ button

After the remote controller is powered on and paired, lower the throttle stick to the low-right corner for a
few seconds. The propeller will start to spin at a minimum speed. The drone is then in armed state and
ready to take off.

Fig. 6 Arming

To disarm, lower the throttle stick to the low-left corner for a few seconds, the propellers will stop
spinning.

Fig. 7 Disarming

Select Flight Mode

Flight modes is pre-set on remote controller as in Fig.8. By default 4 flight modes are configurable
through remote controller: manual, assist/altitude control, assit/position control, and acro mode.

The modes can be chosen by switches in the remote controller (use WFLY/7 remote controller as an
example) as in Fig. 6.

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Fig. 8 select flight modes

For beginners, manual mode is a good start point, as the drone will auto stabilize its attitude during the
flight which makes it easier for pilots to control. When pilots eventually get more and more experienced
then can switch to acro mode for a real racing.

Switch layout on different remote controllers are usually different. You can change the layout of mode
switches or define more flight modes through QGroundControl. Please refer to MindRacer User Guide
document for details.

Flight Black Box - Using a SD Card

MindRacer has a micro SD (TF) card slot. MindRacer will record flight data into the SD card. It is important
for reproducing flight course either for training or maintenance purpose. So it is strongly recommended
that user inserting a SD card before take off.

The SD card must be formatted with FAT32.

FPV Camera and Display (for tiny-whoop)

FPV camera video transmitter needs to be paired with receiver before flight. The channels of transmitter is
set by a push button on the transmitter, with LED indicator showing the current selected channel and
band. The default channel setting for transmitter is B8(5945MHz).

By default you do not need to adjust any of the setting as during manufacture the default display kit has
been paired with the transmitter. In case you want to change the setting or use a different receiver than
default display kit, you need to access the the switch group on the video transmitter board.

Note during a racing match, you need to make sure your video transmitter channel setting does not
interfere with others.

The detailed frequency and channels settings are listed below (Fig. 9).

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assist/alt-ctrl

assist/pos-ctrl

assist

manual

acro

return-to-land

mission

Fig. 9 frequency and channel settings

Pilots use FPV goggles to receive video streams from drone’s camera. The goggles needs to be correctly
setup before it can receive video. Please check and follow goggles vendor’s guide to set it up. By default
the goggles needs to be tuned to the same frequency of MR210’s transmitter (5945MHz) to work
properly.

Change Frequency Group and channel

Use the 2 buttons on the top of camera to adjust group and channel.

Long press on the front button for 2 seconds switches between PAL/NTSC. Short click flip video images.

Long press on the back button for 2 seconds change groups. Short click change channels.

Connect to Ground Station

As a professional flight controller, MindRacer has hundreds of parameters that user can tune. Using
QGroundControl software from computer is the best way to carefully adjust these parameters.

QGroundControl is a free software that anyone can download and use it on the fly. It can be downloaded
from http://www.qgroundcontrol.org. Currently it can support all major PC OS platforms including
Windows, MacOS, Linux, etc. Select the right version for your OS.

To connect, launch QGroundControl on your PC (Fig. 10).

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CH1/5

CH2/6

CH3/7

CH4/8

Group A

5740MHz

5760MHz

5780MHz

5800MHz

5820MHz

5840MHz

5860MHz

5880MHz

Group B

5705MHz

5685MHz

5665MHz

5645MHz

5885MHz

5905MHz

5925MHz

5945MHz

Group C

5865MHz

5845MHz

5825MHz

5805MHz

5785MHz

5765MHz

5745MHz

5725MHz

Group D

5658MHz

5695MHz

5732MHz

5769MHz

5806MHz

5843MHz

5880MHz

5917MHz

Group E

5733MHz

5752MHZ

5771MHz

5790MHz

5809MHz

5828MHz

5847MHz

5866MHz

Group F

5362MHz

5399MHz

5436MHz

5473MHz

5510MHz

5547MHz

5584MHz

5621MHz

Fig. 10 Launch QGroundControl

Power OFF the drone first. Use a micro-USB cable to connect the ‘USB’ port of MindRacer to a PC USB
port. The MindRacer flight controller should be powered on. Wait for a few seconds until the flight
controllers main LED turns in to any stable color. The QGC will try to automatically connect to the flight
controller. After connected, the ground station will update its UI with drone’s status information.

Fig. 9 drone status information

Calibrate New Remote Controller in QGC

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In case you need to re-calibrate your remote controller, and configure the flight modes as in Fig. 5, you
can do this in QGC as depicted in Fig. 11.

Fig. 11 Re-calibrate remote controller and configure flight modes

Color LED Indicator

The main LED indicator is a tricolor LED and can show different status information with the combination of
different colors and blinks. The status information it indicates is listed below:

Fig. 12 LED indicator!

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LED color

meaning (status)

remark

Solid any color

Armed

Breathing any color

Standby

Amber

Low battery or Failsafe

(Return to home, etc)

Blue

GPS not locked

Green

GPS Locked

Fast Blink & Red

Arming error

Blink & Red

Other error

Transitional Green

Mode switch success

Support

Please visit www.mindpx.org for more information. If you have any technical issues related to our
products, please post on MindClub forum club.mindpx.net to ask for help, Or you can send email to
[e-mail].

Where to buy

You can buy NanoMind or related accessories/spare parts at AirMind Store .

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