Comment by James Ross on February 19, 2009 at 7:03pm

That looks pretty nice, Have you thought about displaying the aircraft location on an aerial map?

Comment by Viper UAV Project on February 19, 2009 at 7:09pm

year i did thats whay there is so much space on the bottom left.
As soon i ahve my copter ready i will take a nice picture of the area i fly in to use that then as underlay.

Comment by automatik on February 19, 2009 at 8:12pm

Looks nice ! you can go down to 24-25 fps without any real visual loss (even at 20fps it would still look good)

Comment by John on February 19, 2009 at 9:20pm

Nice work, would love to try it!

Comment by Jack Crossfire on February 20, 2009 at 1:32pm

Notice since most VTOL autopilots are produced in Germany, the word "nick" has become the defacto replacement for "pitch" in VTOL use.

Comment by James Turner on February 22, 2009 at 6:58am

I found I was struggling to achieve a good frame rate using activex controls in vb2005. For now I have had to settle with a seperate video capture running along side my program.

Comment by Viper UAV Project on February 22, 2009 at 7:31am

that looks nice, does the map on the right work , so you see here you are ??
Is this a plug in or did you made it just from a picture from the web ?

Comment by James Turner on February 22, 2009 at 7:40am

Hi, yes the map works okay and is real time. its a mappoint pluggin which simply uses the GPS data sent from the plane. The circuit board I'm building uses two chips. One sends the gps data, voltage, pitch and roll ,the other receives servo data from the program to control the plane. There is lot of work to do and its very rough at the moment with the dreaded flight testing still to do. I do like the look of the controls you have in your program as they are very smooth.

Comment by Earl on February 22, 2009 at 8:53am

Looks good. Like the map output. I am working with a parallax board system here. Darn IDG650's are 28 pin QFN and are SMALL. Trying to figure out a breakout board. I have a coaxial heli with only 2 servo's to control.Built in camera on 2.4 ghz. It's an art tech Eagle-Eye.I have tons of 24 db grid antennas to track video with. I also own an ISP so my thought is to use my system to track heli and show video on internet in real time.Be glad to share info.

Comment by Viper UAV Project on February 22, 2009 at 9:10am

just to test the idg 650 glue it upside down to a holder old ic or some sort, and just use
fine wire with Amalie insulation like the stuff found in spools from transformer, and solder these fine wires to the fine pads. thats what i would do for testing.

I will be using 5.8ghz video so it does not interfeer with the 2.4 xbee and other 2.4 stuff

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