Hello,I am extremely new to this site. My situation is that I am in the middle of rehabilitating a Golden Eagle. I walk around with the eagle on my glove and flush jackrabbits with my dogs. The eagle then attempts to chase them down.What I'm looking for is a way to have a Heli or quad copter follow me while holding a video camera. The heli would only need to be 100-200 feet high.I have a lot of experience with rc heli's and planes, but I have no idea where to start with this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.Thanks,Toby
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My suggestion, for a start, is you plug a GPS chip to a Tx Xbee radio modem on a helmet. The helmet is on our head.
Then a Rx Xbee modem in your chopper. You write some Arduino soft to parse your GPS coordinates to the chopper through the xbee modems.
In the heli, you would have a computer (an Arduino board, maybe an Arduino Pro Mini from Sparkfun.com). This would calculate your displacement vector (speed and heading) based on received GPS coordinate, calculate a difference displacement vector for your heli, transform that vector into actual servo commands, and finally transmit the commands to the servos.
The helmet is just a protection while tweaking the code until it works right... Good luck.
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Then a Rx Xbee modem in your chopper. You write some Arduino soft to parse your GPS coordinates to the chopper through the xbee modems.
In the heli, you would have a computer (an Arduino board, maybe an Arduino Pro Mini from Sparkfun.com). This would calculate your displacement vector (speed and heading) based on received GPS coordinate, calculate a difference displacement vector for your heli, transform that vector into actual servo commands, and finally transmit the commands to the servos.
The helmet is just a protection while tweaking the code until it works right... Good luck.