Jano Visser
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Chris Gough replied to Jano Visser's discussion Paparazzi UAV Project
"Sorry for the late reply, but here's a new site selling assembled Tinys/TWOGs (and other Paparazzi bits): http://aerofu.com/ 2 disclaimers: * Commercial interest - this is my site * It's still a bit under-construction (but I do have…"
Aug 10, 2010
James Turner replied to Jano Visser's discussion Paparazzi UAV Project
"Does anyone know if and where you can buy a Tiny board assembled? I understand it's an open source project but my soldering skills are just not up to it and The website seems to have a few dead end links for suppliers (ppzuav is down at the…"
Jan 12, 2010
A.J. Kochevar replied to Jano Visser's discussion Paparazzi UAV Project
"Well Jano simply but you need to have an FTDI device that will take your USB and convert it into 3.3V serial. PPZUAV sells them. You then load the bootloader via this connection from the terminal using the command make upload_bl. Once you do this…"
Jan 11, 2010
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Nov 25, 2009
Vassilis commented on Jano Visser's blog post Paparazzi I2C programming
"Using the i2c library in Paparazzi is very easy. I used it a few weeks ago to interface with the EagleTree airspeed and altimeter sensors. Have a look at the baro_ets and airspeed_ets files in the sw/airborne directory."
Oct 23, 2009
Jano Visser posted a discussion

Paparazzi I2C programming

Good day everyone,I am working on a uav project at university. We want to integrate ultra sonic sensors with the paparazzi to use for auto takeoff and landing. We want to do this by using the I2C port. Does enyone know how one would adapt the source kode of the paparazzi in order to do this?Thank you.See More
Oct 23, 2009
Jano Visser posted a blog post

Paparazzi I2C programming

Good day everyone,I am working on a uav project at university. We want to integrate ultra sonic sensors with the paparazzi to use for auto takeoff and landing. We want to do this by using the I2C port. Does enyone know how one would adapt the source kode of the paparazzi in order to do this?Thank you.See More
Oct 23, 2009
Jano Visser replied to Jano Visser's discussion Problem with filling the map tiles in paparazzi GCS
"I zoomed in and tried loading the tiles again but is still doesn't work. I'm not able to connect from another place right now but i'll try that to. Do you know if it possible to load the map tiles on google earth, save them somewhere…"
Aug 10, 2009
Jano Visser replied to Jano Visser's discussion Problem with filling the map tiles in paparazzi GCS
"Thank you Jonas, I'll try this and see what happens. Kind Regards, Jano"
Aug 10, 2009
Jonas replied to Jano Visser's discussion Problem with filling the map tiles in paparazzi GCS
"David commented : Comment by David Conger on August 7, 2009 at 1:38pm Most likely you are "banned" from google. This happened to me and is a known issue. If you go into GCS and grab too many maps...google will detect this and block your…"
Aug 10, 2009
Jonas replied to Jano Visser's discussion Problem with filling the map tiles in paparazzi GCS
"Hi Jano, I had the same problem. After a few days it worked again. I heard sometime's google blocks some ip adresses. Do you have a laptop can you make a internet connection from somewhere but your home. And test if you can get the data then."
Aug 10, 2009
Jano Visser posted a discussion

Problem with filling the map tiles in paparazzi GCS

Hi,I'm playing around in on the paparazzi center and the GCS and trying to get to know how everything works. I put in my decimal lat and long coordinates and ran a simulation. When i want to fill the screen with google map tiles i get the following msg in the paparazzi center:Connecting to khm.google.com|64.233.179.136|:80... failed: Connection refused.Can anyone please help with how i can get the paparazzi center to load the map tiles?Thank youSee More
Aug 10, 2009
Jano Visser commented on Sami Finnila's blog post Paparazzi: The Plug and Play autopilot..?
"Good day, I'm playing around on the paparazzi center and getting to know how everything works. I got my lat and long decimal degrees and put them in the flight plan file. I then built and ran the simulator and tried to fill the map with google…"
Aug 6, 2009
Jano Visser posted a discussion

Problem with filling the map tiles na paparazzi GCS

Good day,I'm playing around on the paparazzi center and getting to know how everything works. I got my lat and long decimal degrees and put them in the flight plan file. I then built and ran the simulator and tried to fill the map with google tiles but everytime i get the following message in the paparazzi center:Connecting to khm.google.com|64.233.179.136|:80... failed: Connection refused.Any suggestions on how i can get it to work?Thank you,JanoSee More
Aug 6, 2009
Jano Visser posted a discussion

Modifying paparazzi airframe file

Hi,I am working on a UAV project at university. I have chosen to use the paparazzi autopilot to work with. I some problems with getting an assembled autopilot so decided to get someone to fabricate it for me from the plans on the paparazzi wiki. I am still waiting for the PCB and all the other hardware but have play around with the GCS and the paparazzi software. I am using an airframe that only uses a rudder and elevator with electronic speed control. I have tryed modifying the airframe file…See More
Aug 5, 2009
Peter Meister replied to Jano Visser's discussion Paparazzi UAV Project
"I own multiple Tiny 2.11s - They are rock solid, have an outstanding open source community behind them, great hardware providers which build up complete systems. Very affordable, with some serious advanced capabilities, like running flight…"
Jul 28, 2009

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4th year Mechanical Engineering student at NWU
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Paparazzi I2C programming

Posted on October 23, 2009 at 2:46am 1 Comment

Good day everyone,

I am working on a uav project at university. We want to integrate ultra sonic sensors with the paparazzi to use for auto takeoff and landing. We want to do this by using the I2C port. Does enyone know how one would adapt the source kode of the paparazzi in order to do this?

Thank you.

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