Hi Paul, Just saw your post about GE integration. Are you going to be there for Chris' fly-in next weekend? If so, you wanna get together so we can maybe fly one of our phones with the Soft on your bird? Anyway, would like to get you using this if you are up for it.

Jeff@Pict'Earth

How come in the following PUB module that I am executing via a separate COG, The Rx Inputs that I am receiving for channels 1-4 and 6 stop when I flip the gear switch (channel 5) ?

repeat
stackRxPass1 := bs2.Pulsin(RxInput1, 1)
stackRxPass2 := bs2.PULSIN(RxInput2, 1)
stackRxPass3 := bs2.PULSIN(RxInput3, 1)
stackRxPass4 := bs2.PULSIN(RxInput4, 1)
stackRxPass5 := bs2.PULSIN(RxInput5, 1)
stackRxPass6 := bs2.PULSIN(RxInput6, 1)

if stackRxPass5 > 770
stackGear := 0 'Off
laststackgear := 0
else
stackGear := 1 'On

This is curious. I want to continue to have control of all channels when I flip the gear switch in the scenario I am working on.

I was wondering if you could help me with creating the schematic for a SD socket. I noticed that with your application of the SD socket you had various resistors connected to some pins. Why do you have these resistors and what pins are they on? I thought SD cards use 3.3 logic and supply so resistors wouldn't be needed. I assume I'm wrong?

Paul,

I was reading this forum discussion:

http://diydrones.com/forum/topic/show?id=705844%3ATopic%3A2386

wherein you mentioned that:

"...instead I use a small Canon HD camera (TX1 720p) on the plane that down converts to NTSC in real time for my video transmitter. That way I get compatibility for flight time and HD for posterity. "

If I understand this correctly, what you are saying is that you are able to compress the video into a small enough format that it can be transmitted (via 2.4 GHz or the like) back to your ground station in real time, while the camera is recording in HD. That way you can see exactly what the camera is doing, albeit, at a lower resolution.

I read through 18 pages of forum discussions to find this, and I'm very excited, if that is indeed what you can do.

I'm a mechanical engineer, so I'm good with forces and stress and whatnot, but the computer/Electrical jargon goes over my head. So finally my question: What do you mean by "down converts to NTSC"? How do you do this, does the camera do this automatically, or the video transmitter? Is there other hardware required?

Thanks!

Mike

Hi Paul,

I wanted to point you to my budding Propeller-based autopilot. It's called Octopilot and I'm hosting the project on google code here. I took a lot of ideas from PNav, and wanted to say thanks. :)

I think I recall reading that you were interested in standardizing the code between yours and a few other projects. I'd be interested in joining in that fun!

Ben