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GroundStation

Posted by Jason Short on October 14, 2009 at 3:36pm

My Flash based ground station is now up and running. I'm using Serproxy to connect Flash to the Serial Port and the Xbee radios. I have a simple command parser on the plane integrated with the the GPS parser so I can have 2 way comm over the single serial port. I can send basic WP commands or PI tuning values. GPS is collected and output as KML values through Copy and Paste.

Comments

Craig Palmer October 14, 2009 at 4:58pm

does this run on a computer? If so windows machine and how beefy?
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Jason Short October 14, 2009 at 4:52pm

I'll post the source after I spend the weekend flight testing. You can easily change it to be compatible with ArduPilot, although it will only be 1 way communications. I'm jumping through a lot of hoops to do 2-way.
jason
Jesus October 14, 2009 at 4:19pm

Hello: Congratulations for your ground station!!! Is for the ardupilot? Or is for other autopilot?
Thanks
Jesús
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Brian Wolfe October 14, 2009 at 3:58pm

Oooh, Nice. I've been thinking about some graphical instruments myself, but trying to decide if I should code in C++Builder (most familiar) or jump into Flash or Python. Need a beta tester?

Brian