Dasmikro (TBS Benedini clone)
Posted: Sun Nov 19, 2017 8:20 pm
EDIT: Hi everybody. This thread is quite old and obsolete, I wrote it when I began testing the boards. I published more detailed info and a tutorial on my website, and you can find it here:
Tutorial:
https://radindustries.wordpress.com/202 ... -tutorial/
Review Benedini Mini V2:
https://radindustries.wordpress.com/201 ... s-mini-v2/
Review Benedini Micro:
https://radindustries.wordpress.com/201 ... -dasmikro/
Review V3 and V4:
https://radindustries.wordpress.com/202 ... ini-v3-v4/
Hope it helps.
Hi everyone, I decided to open this thread because I found this small (makes honor to his name) board is really impressive and it worths a try and I may help a lot to those guys struggling with the Heng Long trucks, the Open Panzer board and so on.
First of all, if you can afford it, you should buy the original from the Benedini site. http://www.benedini.de The price of the board would be 89 euros, + 22 of the programming cable, + shipping... Pricey? Yes. Way too pricey for me, impossible to justify, so I just bought the chinesse knockout that you can find everywhere from less than 20 euros free shipping and comes with pins and even a small speaker.
Second, I must say that I am very surprised about the lack of info in internet about it... Is not easy to find how to toy with it, and I even googled for it in three languages with poor results... I think the vast majority of people just sticks with the stock sounds and they dont use any of the extra features at all...
So for controlling the board you need:
1) A ESC (Electronic Speed Controller) with a BEC (Battery Elimination Circuit) This means the ESC powers the Dasmikro and the receiver) with a maximum output of 5v. Warning, you can use the battery that you want (of course according to your ESC limitations), but the ESC must supply a maximum of 5v to the dasmikro.
2) A programmable radio would be ideal with his receiver. Sorry, no crappy Tamiya attack radios here, lol. Also the Heng Long/Taigen ones wont work.
With this board you can do virtually everything you want... It has 5 motor sounds (Start, idle, rev up, moving, rev down and shutdown) and a maximum of 16 custom sounds where you can put whatever you want... But limited with a maximum of 512 kbs of memory. Yes, I know the memory is small, but it gives you something like 30 seconds, which is not bad at all.
Also the board works as a proportional smoke regulator, and even you can control all the lights you want. You can trigger the lights in the order you want, blinking, steady, flashing and even with sounds (For example an orange led flashing with a machine gun sound makes a working machine gun, lol) You even can adjust how fast you want them to flash... Is not the same a cal 50 machine gun than a MG42, right? Also it has brake lights, rear lights... Definitely you can have all the lights you can wish, and there is no need of any extra electronic switch.
For programing the board you need:
0) A word that I lean in this forum. RTFM!!! (Read the F. manual, lol. I uploaded it in the Download section in the forum)
1) A computer with I think, windows. It seems it works in all windows from windows XP. I tested it in W10. If somebody with another OS tries it, Ill update the thread.
2) Install the drivers (For some reason I CANNOT upload them in the forum) Mods help?
3) Install the Benedini program. (Uploaded in the forum)
4) And a programer board. This is a nice point. DO NOT BUY THE PROGRAMMER AT BANGGOOD. Dont buy it alone, and dont buy the board that comes with it. It comes bad wired and it wont work, and also is over expensive. Buy a cheap 3 programmer like this one:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Basic-Breakout ... SwImRYUYAV
And wire it following the diagram, BUT the VCC wire is not needed at all: (Warning, your programmer might have a different order of wires, but just follow the names. I mean, connect for example the GD wire where you programmer says GD) lol If you already have the bang me good programmer, just take a look to it and be sure all the wires are like the diagram.
About the sounds:
All the sounds in the board need to have the same format. I am using 22khz 8 bit .wav files, and I am having a total amount of something about 30 seconds played. For explaining how to make sounds I need to do another looong tutorial, but that's not the point now. The quality I am using is the best the board can play. With worse quality I guess you can use longer sounds, but I have not tested it yet.
The board has 1W output power. Well, the board comes with a small speaker which has a very low power and poor sound quality... I considered installing an amp of 3W but first I tried just replacing the speaker... And WHAT A DIFFERENCE, MAN! The board is LOUD. Really loud, in my opinion it does not need any AMP at all, if you replace the speaker with a better one, the board is definitely loud enough, at least for the Heng Long trucks, not sure about a full metal with steal gears Tiger... Just be sure to install at least a speaker with 8 Ohm or above. I had very bad results with the 4 Ohm one, and you even may damage the board, the speaker or both..
Another marvel of this small board is that you can adjust the volume from the radio too, and there is no need to use additional channels or to plug anything extra to the receiver. I am really surprised about it.
And when programming the sounds, you can also set the volume, or for example if when playing a custom sound you want the motor sound to stop... Its useful, really. I am using this in a hand made P40, I will do a video when I finish it, in a couple of years, maybe, lol.
Tutorial:
https://radindustries.wordpress.com/202 ... -tutorial/
Review Benedini Mini V2:
https://radindustries.wordpress.com/201 ... s-mini-v2/
Review Benedini Micro:
https://radindustries.wordpress.com/201 ... -dasmikro/
Review V3 and V4:
https://radindustries.wordpress.com/202 ... ini-v3-v4/
Hope it helps.
Hi everyone, I decided to open this thread because I found this small (makes honor to his name) board is really impressive and it worths a try and I may help a lot to those guys struggling with the Heng Long trucks, the Open Panzer board and so on.
First of all, if you can afford it, you should buy the original from the Benedini site. http://www.benedini.de The price of the board would be 89 euros, + 22 of the programming cable, + shipping... Pricey? Yes. Way too pricey for me, impossible to justify, so I just bought the chinesse knockout that you can find everywhere from less than 20 euros free shipping and comes with pins and even a small speaker.
Second, I must say that I am very surprised about the lack of info in internet about it... Is not easy to find how to toy with it, and I even googled for it in three languages with poor results... I think the vast majority of people just sticks with the stock sounds and they dont use any of the extra features at all...
So for controlling the board you need:
1) A ESC (Electronic Speed Controller) with a BEC (Battery Elimination Circuit) This means the ESC powers the Dasmikro and the receiver) with a maximum output of 5v. Warning, you can use the battery that you want (of course according to your ESC limitations), but the ESC must supply a maximum of 5v to the dasmikro.
2) A programmable radio would be ideal with his receiver. Sorry, no crappy Tamiya attack radios here, lol. Also the Heng Long/Taigen ones wont work.
With this board you can do virtually everything you want... It has 5 motor sounds (Start, idle, rev up, moving, rev down and shutdown) and a maximum of 16 custom sounds where you can put whatever you want... But limited with a maximum of 512 kbs of memory. Yes, I know the memory is small, but it gives you something like 30 seconds, which is not bad at all.
Also the board works as a proportional smoke regulator, and even you can control all the lights you want. You can trigger the lights in the order you want, blinking, steady, flashing and even with sounds (For example an orange led flashing with a machine gun sound makes a working machine gun, lol) You even can adjust how fast you want them to flash... Is not the same a cal 50 machine gun than a MG42, right? Also it has brake lights, rear lights... Definitely you can have all the lights you can wish, and there is no need of any extra electronic switch.
For programing the board you need:
0) A word that I lean in this forum. RTFM!!! (Read the F. manual, lol. I uploaded it in the Download section in the forum)
1) A computer with I think, windows. It seems it works in all windows from windows XP. I tested it in W10. If somebody with another OS tries it, Ill update the thread.
2) Install the drivers (For some reason I CANNOT upload them in the forum) Mods help?
3) Install the Benedini program. (Uploaded in the forum)
4) And a programer board. This is a nice point. DO NOT BUY THE PROGRAMMER AT BANGGOOD. Dont buy it alone, and dont buy the board that comes with it. It comes bad wired and it wont work, and also is over expensive. Buy a cheap 3 programmer like this one:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Basic-Breakout ... SwImRYUYAV
And wire it following the diagram, BUT the VCC wire is not needed at all: (Warning, your programmer might have a different order of wires, but just follow the names. I mean, connect for example the GD wire where you programmer says GD) lol If you already have the bang me good programmer, just take a look to it and be sure all the wires are like the diagram.
About the sounds:
All the sounds in the board need to have the same format. I am using 22khz 8 bit .wav files, and I am having a total amount of something about 30 seconds played. For explaining how to make sounds I need to do another looong tutorial, but that's not the point now. The quality I am using is the best the board can play. With worse quality I guess you can use longer sounds, but I have not tested it yet.
The board has 1W output power. Well, the board comes with a small speaker which has a very low power and poor sound quality... I considered installing an amp of 3W but first I tried just replacing the speaker... And WHAT A DIFFERENCE, MAN! The board is LOUD. Really loud, in my opinion it does not need any AMP at all, if you replace the speaker with a better one, the board is definitely loud enough, at least for the Heng Long trucks, not sure about a full metal with steal gears Tiger... Just be sure to install at least a speaker with 8 Ohm or above. I had very bad results with the 4 Ohm one, and you even may damage the board, the speaker or both..
Another marvel of this small board is that you can adjust the volume from the radio too, and there is no need to use additional channels or to plug anything extra to the receiver. I am really surprised about it.
And when programming the sounds, you can also set the volume, or for example if when playing a custom sound you want the motor sound to stop... Its useful, really. I am using this in a hand made P40, I will do a video when I finish it, in a couple of years, maybe, lol.