About

Gender

Male


Location

Sydney, NSW


About Me:

Bit of a flying nut. Learning about Drones. Learning about embedded programming. Transferring from C# in my day job to ansi C on an embedded core in the evenings is a real mindshift!


Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest

Planes, Helis, Multis, it's all good. Oh, and cars and boats. I don't do earthmoving equipment, but only cause I don't have any... :-)


Hometown:

Sydney, Australia


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Ben Govett replied to Rolf Blomgren's discussion APM MavLink to FrSky X8R S.Port converter
"Thinking that rather than having all the strings in parseStatusText, you could length check the strings in combination with a check of the first x characters required for each string to make it unique in combination with the length. It's a bit of a…"
Mar 20, 2015
Ben Govett replied to Rolf Blomgren's discussion APM MavLink to FrSky X8R S.Port converter
"The final result of string to char[] wasn't as successful as I'd hoped, although it is still a minor improvement. It would work with a larger number of strings, but not all of them as hoped.
Am working on getting it to check the length of the string…"
Jan 15, 2015
Ben Govett replied to Rolf Blomgren's discussion APM MavLink to FrSky X8R S.Port converter
"GPS doesn't work for me on my Pro Mini. Been pushing myself to get it working so I can learn something deeper about embedded development.

I had to comment out parseStatusText to get it to run without crashing, I think I have a solution for that…"
Jan 11, 2015
Ben Govett replied to Rolf Blomgren's discussion APM MavLink to FrSky X8R S.Port converter
"I followed the same steps you did getting Luis Vale Gonçalves's version going on the Pro Mini by using the SoftSerial implementation Hector provided. Had exactly the same problem with parseStatusText. Everything else worked as long as you commented…"
Jan 11, 2015