My group is currently working with a set of Basic ESC 500 units for driving a set of M200 Motors. We’re interested in some lower-level control tasks using these devices, and were hoping to get some insight into the controller’s firmware parameters.
Reviewing previous discussions on the forums, it looks like while the smaller Basic ESC runs a modified version of BLHeli, the Basic ESC 500 uses a proprietary firmware from the manufacturer, with little visibility into/customization of low-level behaviors.
If this is still the case, is there any additional information BlueRobotics can provide about the contents of the Basic ESC 500 package? If necessary, I’m considering disassembling one of our spare units to at least get a handle of the board layout and hardware components, to see if any well-known ESC development tools might be applicable.
However, going through the trouble of doing so, I figured a forum post to see if anyone in the community had done so already would potentially save me the trouble of having to re-wrap the ESC after opening it up.
My hope would be that despite the proprietary onboard firmware, the underlying chipset might still be a Busy Bee MCU, leaving it potentially open to flashing BLHeli or Bluejay.
If anyone has experimented at all with the Basic ESC 500’s internals I’d love to hear about it.