"If that Android can be read in sunlight, or maybe use a black and white color scheme, one of these would be just the thing. Separating the controller from the radio equipment may be a good idea too."

"yeah, the video shows a socket connection to another pc or maybe a local service on port 777. But most likely another PC like that notebook probably doing the xbee commincations and video streaming. An expensive joystick...."

"I'm using the standard Servo.h library. The control packets use 1 byte for each channel to represent the servo position in degrees. The workable range is 180 degrees but I'm only using 120 as per most RC systems. It is hard to physically connect the…"

"Regarding the channel change protocol, it works well even when rapidly moving the sticks for a few seconds, no latency results. Channel changes are sent at 50hz, the same rate as the analogReads are done on the stick potentiometers. To duplicate a…"

"I've added another blog entry to explain it in more detail."

"I wrote a PocketPC interface for a cheap chinese radio but most find the PocketPC's are too hard to see in direct sunlight, someone also wrote a Palm version and it is easier to read but with lower resolution. I'm finishing up a ground station for…"

"Is binary mode 'faster' than NMEA , or is it more efficient to parse binary vs strings? I don't see how it is 'faster' since the NMEA messages provide the same data and even at 9600bps it can transmit messages at 10hz."

"I like the removable nose cone as well, it would be easy to extend some shelves into the nose cone area and it make access much easier then hatch. Looking forward to more info."