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Super OSD: Open Source OSD - Need some help!

Started this discussion. Last reply by Thomas Oldbury Feb 10, 2011. 7 Replies

I'm working on Super OSD at the moment.Super OSD is an open source (free hardware, free firmware, free software) on screen display module. I have already produced PCBs (below) and I am working on…Continue

Super OSD; and how to manufacture it

Started this discussion. Last reply by Krystal Austin Feb 7, 2011. 13 Replies

As some of you might know I am working on Super OSD, a fully graphical on screen display, which is based on my open source software and hardware designs (…Continue

How interested would people be in a free, open source hardware/firmware graphical OSD?

Started this discussion. Last reply by Thomas Oldbury Aug 22, 2010. 29 Replies

Hi all.For the past few weeks I have been working on a personal project in my spare time before I start my first day of college.The project is to develop a high resolution graphical on screen display…Continue

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Thomas Oldbury commented on Thomas Oldbury's blog post Help fund a new open source graphic OSD!
"@Randy, Thanks!"
Feb 11, 2011
Thomas Oldbury commented on Thomas Oldbury's blog post Help fund a new open source graphic OSD!
"@Pete, I'll PM you!"
Feb 11, 2011

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Randy commented on Thomas Oldbury's blog post Help fund a new open source graphic OSD!
"I think this is the first time there's been a post with a link to a funding site.  very interesting and looks like you'll be fully funded in less than a day!  good luck"
Feb 10, 2011
Pete commented on Thomas Oldbury's blog post Help fund a new open source graphic OSD!
"Thomas i live in the uk  and i could help with the production of these boards where are you going to get them made.   I have a pick and place machine that i could do these on for you and i could show you where to get boards at a good…"
Feb 10, 2011
Thomas Oldbury commented on Thomas Oldbury's blog post Help fund a new open source graphic OSD!
"@Martint, Interesting! If you want to meet, I'd be happy to arrange a time. I'd like to fly with someone in my area, as well as get some advice. PM me if you're interested! :)"
Feb 10, 2011

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Martint BuildYourOwnDrone.co.uk commented on Thomas Oldbury's blog post Help fund a new open source graphic OSD!
"Hello Tom, I have just been reading about your plans, they seem very interesting. What I also found very interesting was looking at your profile page, you only live about 10 miles away from me."
Feb 10, 2011
Thomas Oldbury commented on Thomas Oldbury's blog post Help fund a new open source graphic OSD!
"Also note that those figures are for PAL. I think they will be slightly higher for NTSC."
Feb 10, 2011
Thomas Oldbury commented on Thomas Oldbury's blog post Help fund a new open source graphic OSD!
"@Ben Levitt, If we use 192 pixels horizontal "data resolution", then we can transmit 24 bytes per line, and using all 21 lines gives us 504 bytes per frame, and 12.6KB/s, assuming no error correction or other overhead. This should be good…"
Feb 10, 2011
Ben Levitt commented on Thomas Oldbury's blog post Help fund a new open source graphic OSD!
"Sure, I just suggested line 21 because I like the idea of using an existing standard, which would allow us to use a standard close caption scraping chip.  But I guess using more lines could give us more bandwidth which is probably more…"
Feb 10, 2011
Thomas Oldbury commented on Thomas Oldbury's blog post Help fund a new open source graphic OSD!
"@Ben Levitt, This definitely planned, although more than line 21 can be used... why not the whole VBI, or at least most of it?"
Feb 10, 2011
Ben Levitt commented on Thomas Oldbury's blog post Help fund a new open source graphic OSD!
"Looks awesome!  I'd like to see the ability to embed telemetry data into the line-21 / EIA-608 standard closed caption format.  Then we should be able to build a very cheap ground device to scrape telemetry data back out to a uart.…"
Feb 10, 2011
Riccardo Kuebler commented on Thomas Oldbury's blog post Help fund a new open source graphic OSD!
"Tom, I would vote for implementing it on UavDevBoard (too). Ric"
Feb 10, 2011
Thomas Oldbury commented on Thomas Oldbury's blog post Help fund a new open source graphic OSD!
"It could be done. What is the interface? I2C, UART, something else...? There are I2C and GPS/UART ports on the board, and the low voltage analog inputs can in theory also be used for bidirectional data transfer, if necessary."
Feb 10, 2011
DaveyWaveyBunsenBurner commented on Thomas Oldbury's blog post Help fund a new open source graphic OSD!
"Ardupilot Mega.   If the OSD can be configured to relay APM data (such as the mode, Waypoint etc) that would be super lovely!"
Feb 10, 2011
Thomas Oldbury commented on Thomas Oldbury's blog post Help fund a new open source graphic OSD!
"What is APM? (Sorry, newbie to all these terms.) If it's a mostly software thing, it should be doable."
Feb 10, 2011
Sebastian Gralla commented on Thomas Oldbury's blog post Help fund a new open source graphic OSD!
"an APM interface would be great!"
Feb 10, 2011

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Help fund a new open source graphic OSD!

Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:30am 16 Comments

 

I'm working on Super OSD at the moment. Super OSD is an open source (open hardware and open source software) on screen display module designed for FPVers, but also drone flyers. I have already produced PCBs (below) and I am working on some initial engineering prototypes. What I want to do is to put the boards…

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