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Vincent replied to Vincent's discussion Yet ANOTHER Autopilot
"Hi all,
here are the specs of the radios we have:
* Power output: 1 mW - 1 Watt (0 - 30 dBm), software selectable
* Indoor/Urban range: Up to 3000 ft (900 m)
* Outdoor/RF line-of-sight range: up to 40 miles (64 km)
* RF data rate: 9.6 or 115.2…"
Dec 13, 2009
Vincent replied to Vincent's discussion Yet ANOTHER Autopilot
"Here is a picture of the fully assembled
board. Apologies for the image quality. Its straight from my phone."
Dec 7, 2009
Vincent replied to Vincent's discussion Yet ANOTHER Autopilot
"Just a quick update. The 2axis gyro & 3 axis accelerometer are installed & working very well. Its just raw data at this stage though.

Last on the list is the Compass, although not being tilt compensated, i am not sure how useful it will be.
I'll…"
Nov 23, 2009
Vincent replied to Vincent's discussion Yet ANOTHER Autopilot
"I'm thinking of making this project all open source.
Where is a good place to upload files, gerbers, code etc etc??"
Nov 19, 2009
Vincent replied to Vincent's discussion Yet ANOTHER Autopilot
"Just another quick update. Did a proper evenings programming & soldering this evening & now have the GPS talking to the computer via the PIC, i have some servos moving cw/ccw via commands from the laptop & I have a nice little bluetooth connection…"
Nov 18, 2009
Vincent replied to Faisal Shah's discussion How many switches/pushbuttons/LEDs to use, and for what
"I've seen some really nice surface mount LEDs that have three colors on the one LED."
Nov 15, 2009
Vincent replied to Vincent's discussion Yet ANOTHER Autopilot
"Hey Chris. The serial port was just chucked on the so I can interface to hyperlynx easily. No other reason really.

Two gyros onboard & i'll probably end up mounting one more vertically on the expansion port on the read of the pcb. I was hoping…"
Nov 5, 2009
Vincent posted a discussion
Hi Guys. I'm new here so go easy eh!Inspired by THAT high altitude glider guy years ago Ive finally gone and designed a pcb.I didn't bother posting before I got the pcb's as I'm sure there are heaps of people with many many great ideas that never…
Nov 4, 2009