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About Me:
I've been flying r/c planes for a long time now, but I only just recently find the joy of FPV flying. I'm interested in electronics and embedded systems in general. I work as a software specialist in a company named Digia. Long term plan is to learn to fly helis but I never seem to have enough time to master that =)
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"Thanks for the post, I made something very similar, with small adapter to connect the cable directly to servo port: http://antibore.wordpress.com/2013/04/30/diy-remote-shutter-release..."
"ESC's are too sensitive to ambient temperature: http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/lesson-learned-about-3dr-escs-a..."
"@Bas Tjis: It's indeed possible to use trainer port for headtracker, since you can select which channels are overridden by student from trainer menu. It's also possible to hack for example slider switches and input headtracker position to them, but…"
"@Bas Tjis: The board size is now 35x40mm, but it could be reduced a bit easily. The board connects to APM like you would connect 3DR Radio or Xbee to it and it has a passthrough for telemetry transmitter.
I don't use a headtracker myself, but I have…"
I don't use a headtracker myself, but I have…"
"@Bas Tjis: And with mere 25€, I can send you one ready made =)"
"If the weight is not an issue, I guess that setup is fine. I encourage you to try the USB 3g modem though. I did not find it hard to setup and performance vise, it's peanuts compared to the video processing you do and should not cause measurable…"
"And why waste weight for a router when you can have 3G connectivity just by connecting USB 3G stick to RPI?"
"VCC. You can connect VCC and AVCC together, but as ADC is not used, it's not that important."
"Yes, if you connect just the adapter to receiver and supply adapter with power, telemetry menu should open in the Auroras screen and some values should be displayed. Note that if you connect the adapter to receiver after the receiver has been…"
"Sorry, the FET(BUZ71) could be commented a little better. For normal use, it can be left unpopulated. Adapter supplies power to gate when APM reports solid GPS lock. I use it to turn on power of video transmitter after GPS lock has been made."
"@Perecastor:
"I don't understand this : Compile with 8MHz clock speed and when programming, check that “Divide clock by 8″ fuse on low fuse word is not programmed.": You don't need to care about this. Fuses are relevant if you buy plain AVR…"
"I don't understand this : Compile with 8MHz clock speed and when programming, check that “Divide clock by 8″ fuse on low fuse word is not programmed.": You don't need to care about this. Fuses are relevant if you buy plain AVR…"
"@perecastor: You got it half working, values about 5000 are debug values in code, that are shown before real data is received from apm.
Problem is in communication between apm and adapter. Double check connections, disconnect telemetry transmitter…"
Problem is in communication between apm and adapter. Double check connections, disconnect telemetry transmitter…"
"@perecastor: note that you can't make arduino to run at different speed, editing boards.txt merely makes the compiler to compile code that works at set clock speed. If the arduino runs at different speed than the code is compiled for, it causes…"
"@Perecastor: The link to code repository was in my blog post. Here's the repository address: https://gitorious.org/apm-hss-emulator/apm-hss-emulator/trees/master
Arduino mini r5 should be ok, just pay attention that you compile code with same CPU…"
Arduino mini r5 should be ok, just pay attention that you compile code with same CPU…"
"@Gary: Why not, one or two I could make just for the fun of it, but if I could get some number of preorders, I could have professional PCB made at reasonable price."
"@Veikko: I haven't ever seen communication fail, so I guess the range is somewhat similar to tx range. Then again I have always flown inside visual range, so I have never flown that far."
