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Hello Everyone!

Some of You may remember an early prototype of a integrated remote that I built and posted here on DIY a couple of years ago. While the post has been taken down since, the work on this control never stopped but rather went "underground" while I worked on it with a couple of business partners.

Some of you who attended the LA Drone Expo this last weekend got to see the product live. For those of you that weren’t, I am thrilled to present our soon to ship UAVX Gravity Pilot Control System.

The rugged 16" Gravity controller features 2 channels of 5.8Ghz live HD capable video with 3-axis gimbal control. The sunlight viewable 7" WXGA LCD touchscreen provides intuitive configuration and mission planning. Simply set your waypoints in Google Maps and let your GPS navigate while you view and capture stunning images and video in real-time. All with full flight data via onb board real-time telemetry display in Gravity.

You probably wonder when we will release the Gravity. Well it will be very soon. While we have procured almost all of the tooling required to produce components like enclosures, screens, main CPU etc, we will be launching a KickStarter campaign in January to help us set up a production facility so that we may begin shipping by April of 2015.

We welcome your feedback and look forward to showing it to you in person.

Our next stop is the AMA EXPO January 9-11 in California.

Please follow us via our website www.uavx.com

Well this took me a while, I've been too busy travelling to complete in time.

Some of You may remember my earlier post:

http://www.diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/all-in-one-uav-controller

Well I must say it is done! And it came out pretty nice! This is an all in one UAV controller:

As mentioned - it's all in one board that contains the following:

- 3 axis gyro

- 3 axis accelerometer

- 3 axis magnetic sensor

- orientation sensor for calibration and in flight corrections

- 2 pressure sensor (one for altitud and the other for air speed measurement)

- moisture and temperature sensor

- 10 Hz GPS

- contactless current sensor

- optically isolated PWM inputs and outputs (5 inputs and 8 outputs), with additional one non-isolated input and 4 non isoated outputs

- 10 16bit analog or digital inputs outputs

- I2C, SPI and CAN communication ports

- miro SD card for data logging

- SEPIC power supply that will maintain device operation down to 1 V remaining on the battery

All of it is controlled by TI's 32 bit DSP (TMS320F28335) with float support. This is a real power engine capabe of 150 MMACS!

I've been sucessfully working on programing it directly from Matlab / Simulink - this has dramatically improved code development eliminating hard coding of all routines.

All comes in a neat 2.2 by 2 inch package with weight of just under 0.4 oz (12 grams with no servo headers)!

There are two other version being currently build and tested as well - one intended for quad copters (no headers just I2C ad CAN) and the other with an integrated GSM module (Telit's GE865 module).

If some of You would like to contribute to the development of this module You are welcome - it turns out working on a project of that scale alone is just beyond my abilities and time commitment, so I would welcome some of You to contribute! Please feel free to contact me!

By the way I will be making other posts very shortly about other exciting projects I've been working on so keep watching!

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UAVX Gravity Pilot

Finally one of my project comes to an end !!! All in one UAV controller !!!!

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