QuadESC is a four-motor power board with an installed AM13E system-on-module. This repository contains the editable mainboard and module designs, schematics, firmware sources and hardware manuals.
Hardware documentation
The handoff manuals are maintained as Markdown in documentation/source/:
- QuadESC manual: power, connections, sensing, control resources and mechanical integration.
- AM13E SoM manual: module interfaces, pin assignments, power selection, TI BSL programming and debug.
Connector references retain pin numbers, net names and electrical mappings. Use the KiCad designs for physical board geometry.
See documentation build instructions to generate the HTML site locally. CI builds and checks the same source for merge requests and pull requests, and publishes the manuals from main through GitHub Pages on embedconsult/quadesc, with an optional GitLab Pages pipeline for OpenBeagle. Generated HTML is a CI artifact rather than checked-in content.
Repository layout
| Path | Contents |
|---|---|
mainboard/ |
Editable QuadESC mainboard design |
som/ |
Editable AM13E module design |
mainboard_schematic.pdf, som_schematic.pdf |
Exported schematics |
documentation/source/ |
Markdown manuals, shared diagrams and styling |
documentation/reference/ |
Electrical connector, GPIO and analog reference data |
tools/documentation/ |
Documentation build and validation scripts |
firmware/ |
Firmware sources and existing application/loader artifacts |
drone-flasher-swd/ |
SWD programming utility |
Documentation builds use only the manuals and their reference assets. See the programming guide for module programming interfaces.