Open Source FPV Project - OpenFPV - Blogs

I started an open source project to make FPV with the raspberry pi easy to use for every one and wanna invite developers to join. At the moment it is not available for download.

Current Features:

Recording
Web interface
Low-Latency H264 Streaming (≈120ms)
RESTful API
Customizable
Extendable
Installer (in progress)
Minimal bettery consumption

Roadmap:

Invite more people to join the development team
Complete the installer
More field tests with different setups
Create desktop applications for mac/win with HUD support
Add OculusVR support

If you are interested in the project please let me know, if you want to contribute to the project please contact me: contact@openfpv.org

The project website is http://openfpv.org

I will post updates about the project status in the future.

How the system embedded control panel looks like in the moment:

Thanks to every one who providing blog posts around this topic, especially

Philip from diydrones.com with his great article: http://diydrones.com/xn/detail/705844%3ABlogPost%3A1433488

who gave me the initial input to start it. Philip I invite you to join OpenFPV.

Southwest of Manning Park

https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-32.0951902,115.7730668,15z

Coastal winds picked up and blew my fluoro-orange flying wing south west. Went to full manual, but too far away to see control direction. Switched to RTL, but it went to circle above its new position instead (even with a strong GPS lock prior to departure). Took about 30 seconds to get closer, but then it had already crashed.

From speaking to tradesmen and fishermen it likely went down at the last position I had seen it (fisherman did not hear anything, trady heard something in distance only. Problem is there is dense scrubs up to 2 meters high there. A quad with FPV would probably suffice to locate it (one meter wing span fluoro-orange wing), but I only have one APM and can't power my quad :(.......

Or someone had already picked it up before I got there. (really should have put my mobile number on the plane). And shows why telemetry link would have been very useful (did not have it as was testing my raspberry pi)

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tshado June 29, 2014 at 8:36am

@Harmen de Jong

Do you remenber the title of the The original topic starter (which had HD FPV streaming all set up and working)?

If not do you remember who was the author and which solutions where used ?

Kind regards,

JC
Harmen de Jong May 5, 2014 at 11:54pm

For what it's worth I thought putting in a link to this RCGroups thread in here might be usefull: http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1507916 . The original topic starter (which had HD FPV streaming all set up and working) seems to have disappeared, but still this thread might contain some useful information and ideas.
Tilman Griesel May 5, 2014 at 3:12am

Thank you Randy, sounds really good! I try to get my hands on a ODroid board.
Developer

Randy May 4, 2014 at 5:50am

Looks like a great project.

Some people on the ardupilot dev team are using the ODroid + Logitech C920 camera. In some experiments that were done by Tridge he found that the ODroid was 10x ~ 20x faster than the RPi for OpenCV work.

Thanks very much to Stephen Gloor for the link in the comments about how to remove the bracket from the Logitech C920 camera!
Stephen Gloor May 3, 2014 at 10:15pm

Also sorry Tilman - did not realise we were hi-jacking the thread.

Will message you if we manage to do anything.
Marius van Rijnsoever May 3, 2014 at 10:07pm

Many thanks for the offer Stephen, really appreciate it. Fully understand no promises can be made. Here is a map with all the points. It is a one meter wing span custom flying wing fluor-orange.

http://mapfling.com/qxg9q87

Sorry for the post hijack Tilman. I'll make up for it by contributing some code to your project.
Stephen Gloor May 3, 2014 at 9:48pm

Where did you take off from exactly? I may be able to get a team member to do a sweep tomorrow with our OBC plane. No promises as i am not the one that would do it.
Marius van Rijnsoever May 3, 2014 at 9:43pm

Southwest of Manning Park

https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-32.0951902,115.7730668,15z

Coastal winds picked up and blew my fluoro-orange flying wing south west. Went to full manual, but too far away to see control direction. Switched to RTL, but it went to circle above its new position instead (even with a strong GPS lock prior to departure). Took about 30 seconds to get closer, but then it had already crashed.

From speaking to tradesmen and fishermen it likely went down at the last position I had seen it (fisherman did not hear anything, trady heard something in distance only. Problem is there is dense scrubs up to 2 meters high there. A quad with FPV would probably suffice to locate it (one meter wing span fluoro-orange wing), but I only have one APM and can't power my quad :(.......

Or someone had already picked it up before I got there. (really should have put my mobile number on the plane). And shows why telemetry link would have been very useful (did not have it as was testing my raspberry pi)

Google Maps

Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps.
Stephen Gloor May 3, 2014 at 9:28pm

Approximately where did you lose it? If it is accessible we might be able to fly some mapping missions and use Tridge's recognition software to find it.
Marius van Rijnsoever May 3, 2014 at 9:07pm

Unfortunately just had a setback. Lost my plane, apm and raspberry pi in some bushland in Western Australia. No luck finding it on foot and did not have it connected through telemetry to get the last GPS location remotely.

Now I need a backup FPV system to find it.........

Means I won't be able to further develop my raspberry pi system atm, as need to do some internet shopping first.

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