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"Yes the Arduino Pro Mini is flying on my quad decoding the Mavlink and converting it to Remzibi style serial commands for OSD symbology. The feed was one way though - the uplink to the APM is coming from my XBEE and the downlink is tee'd off to the…"
"You certainly could make it work, but you'll still need some way to set home position using a user interface. The existing Ardustation 2 software assumes that there are an array of buttons and an LCD screen. The software would have to be modified…"
"It is possible, but there are a few differences that need some work - such as the switch input - which is quite a bit different and the LCD which is larger, and has graphic modes. It would definitely be a better choice - particularly since 3DR has…"
"You could add code to master a couple of I2C slaves, and it is possible with some external wires on the Ardustation (need to add pull up resistors for I2C), but it will be tough to debug with the limited debugging features of the Ardustation. If I…"
"It certainly is possible since the APM has servo outputs and can process telemetry data on one of its serial ports. The problem is that no one I know has written the software to do it. Also there is a question of a user interface if this isn't…"
"An LA is a logic analyzer - such as this:
https://www.sparkfun.com/products/8938
or this:
http://www.usbee.com/zx.html
(which is what I use).
It traces logic signals and displays the resulting data in various ways. It time tags each sample and…"
https://www.sparkfun.com/products/8938
or this:
http://www.usbee.com/zx.html
(which is what I use).
It traces logic signals and displays the resulting data in various ways. It time tags each sample and…"
"2.0.20 released. Forum announcement here:
http://diydrones.com/forum/topics/ardustation-2-2-0-20-adds-servo-s..."
http://diydrones.com/forum/topics/ardustation-2-2-0-20-adds-servo-s..."
This release modifies the Antenna Test screen to allow better servo setup for other antenna platforms/servos. Schedules an additional Mavlink message to support the display of some parameters on the 3DR OSD. Adds servo reverse defines. Adds an…
"Update on 2.0.20, I'm flight testing some changes today and found an issue that I'm fixing. I've added switches for servo reversing I'm also going to add an option to use HUD altitude for antenna pointing vs GPS. My GPS altitude has been really…"
"I just got the new feature working yesterday. It needs some explanation and I just posted a video showing its basic operation. After I posted it I noticed a display bug and I need to fix that before releasing, but I should be able to do that today…"
"Steve,
I made some progress yesterday on the new antenna test screen and I've decided to add a feature to allow adjusting the servo endpoints without recompiling. This will take a few more days, but I should have a release by the weekend.
Heino"
I made some progress yesterday on the new antenna test screen and I've decided to add a feature to allow adjusting the servo endpoints without recompiling. This will take a few more days, but I should have a release by the weekend.
Heino"
"It could be made to work with the Ardustation - there could be several approaches including removing the servospeed library to free all the interrupts up. It also could be possible that your application could tolerate the data transfer overhead on…"
"Pan.attach(9,1414,1585);
is all you need to get it to surrount the 1500 usec
The Ardustation doesn't have the I2C pins hooked up, so wires would have to be soldered to pins 4 and 5 of the ATMEGA328 along with a pull up resistor to even get the I2C…"
is all you need to get it to surrount the 1500 usec
The Ardustation doesn't have the I2C pins hooked up, so wires would have to be soldered to pins 4 and 5 of the ATMEGA328 along with a pull up resistor to even get the I2C…"
"Steve,
Not yet - I've gotten side tracked by a event that my rocketry club is holding in St. Louis and I'm one of the organizers for Saturday (Moon landing anniversary). I'll get back to it on Sunday."
Not yet - I've gotten side tracked by a event that my rocketry club is holding in St. Louis and I'm one of the organizers for Saturday (Moon landing anniversary). I'll get back to it on Sunday."
"You must set the range of the pan servo so it covers the power up pulse setting. The initial pulse position happens in the low level init in the library and outputs around 1500 usecs. Your range needs to surround 1500 to avoid the problem. You only…"
"Also - I originally didn't have the antenna test screen to calibrate. I used the actual values from my quad to get the servo values close - so it will be good to get the test screen working better. I think I'll also change the values to represent…"
