"You should look at this post on what upgrades you want to do for the Easystar. A link to it is on the ardupilot home page under the picture of the Easy Star:
I wanted to discuss some of the details of the Telemetry over Video VBI project. I don't see a way to send a message directly to you. We can set up a "Huddle Workspace" if you'd like but it seems like it's kind of complicated and buggy.…"
(Chris, feel free to move this discussion to a different section of the forum..don't know if you want to do a separate section for these forums or whatever)I'm looking forward to working with Remzibi on this :-)Chris, it would be helpful to me to…
"I'd like to help with one or more of the projects. I'm planning to do some work on #1 (Thermopile replacement) and was planning to try first to get the PWM+Res/Cap filter version that Dean has suggested working.
Just to check, you meant 50Hz not 50MHz for DCM update rate. Did you arrive at that refresh rate to be compatible with the radio/servo PCM refresh rates or is that limited by the processing power you have available for the DCM…"
"If you download the source code for the ardupilot here: http://code.google.com/p/ardupilot/
you can see in the Sensors.pde file how it's done (the x_axis, y_axis, get_pitch, and get_roll functions). The x and y outputs from the x/y sensors are read…"
"I"ll try the idea of using the Tx line and post what I find out.
As for using two XBee's on the ground it looks like that should work as well...just based on a quick read of some of the XBee documentation it appears you can configure them in a way…"
I'm in the process of collecting parts to make my own ArduPilot/EasyStar UAV.
Does the ArduStation also include the functionality of an XBee Explorer USB module? That is, in addition to displaying the received telemetry on it's LCD screen, can…"