Using a turnigy 6X transmitter and receiver

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Hi, guys, I am pretty new to this so if you could explain the answer to my problem in fairly simple terms I would appreciate it, I was going to buy an ESC because I could connect my battery to it and have the bec that outputs 2A for my turnigy 6x (https://hobbyking.com/en_us/turnigy-6x-fhss-2-4ghz-transmitter-and-receiver-mode-2.html) I ended up buying an o-drive and am curious as how to connect my turnigy 6x to this. The 6x is a transmitter and receiver that if you plug it into an ESC I’m pretty sure you can control the motors, how would such a thing be achieved with my o-drive?

And one final thing, there is no coding involved with the 6x you plug it in and it can control a robot right away by making go front and back, etc. I have a robot project due on this next week so if you guys can help me out I would really appreciate it.

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You’re going to want to use the RC PWM control interface method as described here:

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Thank you I appreciate it, there is no coding though? Is it plug and play?

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Yep, just plug and play. You have to configure the ODrive via the USB tool (odrivetool) but no actual programming required.

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So I can just use jump wires from the o-drive to the receiver? My teacher is concerned about the o-drive breaking the receiver, could this happen?

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You plug it in the same way that you would plug in an ESC. Why are you be worried that ODrive could break it?

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He said something about if the current coming from the o-drive being to large and breaking the receiver, he is not to familiar with an o-drive so maybe he doesn’t really understand what it is but I tried my best to explain it.

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And the 6X receiver takes 3 wires it seems, the o-drive gpio only has one, would it work if I only plugged one wire into the receiver?

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Can you link to the 6x receiver so I can see what it looks like?

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The voltage for the receiver needs to be:
Power: 4.5v ~ 9.6v/<30ma
so use a little usb battery pack for that, they output at 5v to 5.2v.

If you encounter something with sbus, you can get an sbus to pwm decoder:
https://hobbyking.com/en_us/frsky-4-channel-s-bus-to-pwm-decoder.html