Comment by Tilman Baumann on February 7, 2013 at 9:00am

Hm, that explained why I have not heard back from him. Well, I hope he gets those problems sorted out, I would still love to get one.

PS: I wonder, would it fit in the new TX9R? Not sure I'm such a fan of the new model, but I have not made my mind up about that yet.

PPS: Maybe the TX9 graze is over when FrSky comes with their own TX on the market. They announced a TX that will be Opensource, FreeRTOS based and also run a ARM cpu...

Comment by Stefan Gofferje on February 7, 2013 at 9:06am

Nope doesn't fit the 9XR. And from what I have read, the 9XR isn't that great...

Yeah, let's see, what the FrSKY thingy looks like. But there's still a whole lot of 9X out there and the 9X is dirt-cheap.

Plus the Sky9X-board really makes a great base for a DIY-TX or a DIY integrated ground control station.

Comment by Bill Bonney on February 7, 2013 at 9:11am

I'm not surprised that the interest is low as the FrSky product has potential to fix both issues of poor software and low quality components for gimbals etc...
Also see the comment about the gruvin9x http://gruvin9x.com/shop/gruvin9x/22-gruvin9x-v41-pcb-fully-assembl...

Comment by Stefan Gofferje on February 7, 2013 at 9:33am

From a modding point of view that may be right, although the FrSky TX still has to prove itself. Not every product that was hyped later lived up to the expectations.

But - as I said - I'm more thinking DIY than modding. From the chatter here on DIYD and the resonance to my ground station project, I conclude that many people would like to have a "real" integrated ground station, you know, Peli case and stuff... And buying a great board for CD$85 hurts much less than buying a TX for $250 and ripping it apart :). Plus if you just buy the board, you are free to choose the peripherals like the sticks, for instance.

Comment by Tilman Baumann on February 7, 2013 at 9:41am

True. Tx9 and it's ecosystem might be a bit anachronistic at times and the hardware quality really sucks (Pots picking up all sorts of RF for example). But if it has done anything, it has proven to be extremely hackable.

And it's so cheap and ubiquitous (though sometimes difficult to source)

I still rather have that. Especially since FrSky will most likely not leave a abundance of IO pins available for free use as Sky9x has. Hackability of the FrSky thing has still to be proven.

Comment by Александр on February 7, 2013 at 10:49am

And how to buy?

Comment by baptiste.vial on February 7, 2013 at 11:23am

I have an ersky9x revb and it's a really great board, audio features are really cool when piloting arducopter, you can program a lot of text2speech alerts to perfectly know the state of your aircraft

Comment by Chris Eddy on February 7, 2013 at 11:42am

I'd been waiting for the spring to work on my 9x, but I'd happily pre-pay to keep this project alive.  Awesome work Brent!  Let us know how we can help keep the Sky9x board alive....

Comment by Stefan Gofferje on February 7, 2013 at 2:06pm

Aleksandr: Go to the website (http://www.ersky9x.net/) and send Brent a message if you are interested in buying a board!

Comment by Bill Bonney on February 7, 2013 at 3:09pm

@Stefan: could you not use ArduPPM on a 32u to do the same. This seems like overkill to use this... An Arduino pro could do it. Or is the display driver you are working on?

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