"It looks like the thermal sensor is pretty low resolution, but the final images look good because they are composites with the visible light camera in the iphone and the thermal sensor. But this still might be a was to get thermal sensors cheep…"
"If I were doing something like this I probably wouldn't use an apm or ground control station software. I would stick with an arduino and arduino IDE. Arduino's are a lot cheaper than apm's and people have written software to interface them with the…"
"First I'll play devils advocate. Well I didn't mention these two points because there sort of vague in the press release from valve, but the trackpads are "high resolution' and have haptic feedback. Its hard to say what constitutes high resolution…"
"Thomas yes I do mean joysticks. but most rc transmitters have a more specialized type of joystick in that the x axis unit is housed inside the y axis and could be refereed to as a gimbal. And it is one of the major factors in the size of…"
The picture above is the new video game controller from valve, you can read more about it here. Note that there are no thumb sticks just trackpads and a touchscreen. Are rc controllers lagging behind the times by using analog components…