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Connecting a micro controller to ArduPilot

Posted by Vishnu Jyothindran on May 30, 2011 at 12:11am

Hi,

I that there are 4 serial ports on the ArduPilot Mega. Are any of the ports free? I know one of the them is used for the Xbee connection and I was wondering if I could use a free serial port to communicate the aircraft state(IMU and GPS) to a microcontroller which is stabilizing a gimballed camera. The GPS is required so that the micro controller can direct the camera to point at a GPS location.

How difficult would it be to setup this auxiliary port?

Thanks for your help in advance.

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Darren May 30, 2011 at 1:19am

There are camera controls being worked into the 2.x code to do just what your talking about.

http://code.google.com/p/ardupilot-mega/wiki/Onboard

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