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Ballwin, MO


About Me:

Software and electrical engineer with a strong interest in r/c helis, gliders and flying remotely. EEWeb interview: http://www.eeweb.com/spotlight/interview-with-heino-r.-pull


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www.heino.com


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St. Louis, Missouri


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Heino R. Pull replied to Avi Yadgar's discussion Tracking - Pan scale
"When you're doing the test how many satellites are being received? If you're close to the aircraft, multipath issues with buildings nearby can pollute the solution and cause errors in pointing also. If the errors are consistent, it is also possible…"
May 23, 2014
Heino R. Pull commented on Heino R. Pull's blog post Using a Remzibi OSD with Arducopter 2.0.x Beta (and now Arducopter 2.7.3/2.8) and Mavlink 0.9/1.0
"Yes the Arduino Pro Mini is flying on my quad decoding the Mavlink and converting it to Remzibi style serial commands for OSD symbology. The feed was one way though - the uplink to the APM is coming from my XBEE and the downlink is tee'd off to the…"
Mar 14, 2014
Heino R. Pull replied to Stefan's discussion Remzibi OSD 3DR + APM 2.5 GPS?
"I've only tried this on the APM.  I don't have any 32 bit hardware so although in principle it could work, I'm not sure. Also, there well could be Mavlink changes since this software is so old.

Heino"
Mar 12, 2014
Heino R. Pull replied to Avi Yadgar's discussion Tracking - negative tilt
"The only way to do this would be to expand the range of the tilt servo to more than 90 degrees and to calibrate it. This requires modifying a number of hard coded constants in the Ardustation code. 

I've stopped working on the Ardustation code, but…"
Mar 6, 2014
Heino R. Pull replied to Guy Tzoler's discussion ArduStation without Xbee
"You certainly could make it work, but you'll still need some way to set home position using a user interface. The existing Ardustation 2 software assumes that there are an array of buttons and an LCD screen.  The software would have to be modified…"
Feb 22, 2014
Heino R. Pull replied to Heino R. Pull's discussion Ardustation 2 - 2.0.20 Adds Servo Setup, Compatibility with 3DR OSD, Optional Baro Altitude For Pointing
"It is possible, but there are a few differences that need some work - such as the switch input - which is quite a bit different and the LCD which is larger, and has graphic modes. It would definitely be a better choice - particularly since 3DR has…"
Feb 19, 2014
Heino R. Pull replied to Heino R. Pull's discussion Ardustation 2 - 2.0.20 Adds Servo Setup, Compatibility with 3DR OSD, Optional Baro Altitude For Pointing
"You could add code to master a couple of I2C slaves, and it is possible with some external wires on the Ardustation (need to add pull up resistors for I2C), but it will be tough to debug with the limited debugging features of the Ardustation. If I…"
Feb 18, 2014
Heino R. Pull replied to chethan j's discussion Ardustation2_APM_ACM_2.0.11 error
"This is a very old version from 2010 so it needs an earlier version of the Arduino environment to be compatible at the library level. I just tried downloading and compiling 2.0.11 with Arduino.021 and it worked.

Here is what I did:
Download the…"
Jan 30, 2014
Heino R. Pull replied to Michael Moser's discussion Ardustation with a Standard Servo (180 degree)
"Hi Michael,

It is definitely possible, but a little tricky. The current code computes a range bearing to the destination A/C and the bearing is always in 0 to 359 degrees. The default configuration is a standard 180 degree servo geared to an…"
Oct 13, 2013
Heino R. Pull replied to Duffy's discussion APM 2.5 as antenna tracker
"It certainly is possible since the APM has servo outputs and can process telemetry data on one of its serial ports.  The problem is that no one I know has written the software to do it. Also there is a question of a user interface if this isn't…"
Sep 23, 2013
Heino R. Pull replied to Heino R. Pull's discussion Ardustation 2 - 2.0.20 Adds Servo Setup, Compatibility with 3DR OSD, Optional Baro Altitude For Pointing
"An LA is a logic analyzer - such as this:
https://www.sparkfun.com/products/8938

or this:
http://www.usbee.com/zx.html  
(which is what I use).
It traces logic signals and displays the resulting data in various ways. It time tags each sample and…"
Aug 23, 2013
Heino R. Pull commented on Heino R. Pull's blog post Modified Ardustation Software to Support the Arudcopter and a Tilt/Pan Antenna Driven By Mavlink
"2.0.20 released.  Forum announcement here:
http://diydrones.com/forum/topics/ardustation-2-2-0-20-adds-servo-s..."
Aug 2, 2013
Heino R. Pull posted a discussion
This release modifies the Antenna Test screen to allow better servo setup for other antenna platforms/servos. Schedules an additional Mavlink message to support the display of some parameters on the 3DR OSD. Adds servo reverse defines. Adds an…
Aug 2, 2013
Heino R. Pull commented on Heino R. Pull's blog post Modified Ardustation Software to Support the Arudcopter and a Tilt/Pan Antenna Driven By Mavlink
"Update on 2.0.20,  I'm flight testing some changes today and found an issue that I'm fixing. I've added switches for servo reversing I'm also going to add an option to use HUD altitude for antenna pointing vs GPS. My GPS altitude has been really…"
Aug 2, 2013
Heino R. Pull commented on Heino R. Pull's blog post Modified Ardustation Software to Support the Arudcopter and a Tilt/Pan Antenna Driven By Mavlink
"I just got the new feature working yesterday.  It needs some explanation and I just posted a video showing its basic operation.  After I posted it I noticed a display bug and I need to fix that before releasing, but I should be able to do that today…"
Jul 30, 2013
Heino R. Pull commented on Heino R. Pull's blog post Modified Ardustation Software to Support the Arudcopter and a Tilt/Pan Antenna Driven By Mavlink
"Steve,

I made some progress yesterday on the new antenna test screen and I've decided to add a feature to allow adjusting the servo endpoints without recompiling.  This will take a few more days, but I should have a release by the weekend.

Heino"
Jul 22, 2013
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