I'm working on a UAV (have been for a few months on and off) that willbring my plane back home. You see I fly a foam plane (an EasyGlider)that I have modified with an electric motor atop and a video camera anddownlink so I can see what the plane sees and fly "First Person".
I had a rather "adrenaline inducing" experience when my video downlinkwas lost (my fault - I flew behind my receive antennas coverage). Well,I also realized that I had flown behind some trees and was just out ofdirect sight *. Short version is that I trimmed for gliding, cut powerand listened.
Electric are very quite, but I rigged up a portable video receiver anddirectional antennae and walked the few hundred meters to thediscovered plan in the trees. Embarrassed, yes - discourage, no! Sothat's my story getting into the UAV world. The FPV world was afterwatching VRFlyer on Youtube.
So Come-Home is my first application and I will post my code once it is fully working for anyone's open source use.
I use the www.Parallax.com propeller chip which appears quite capable.
Paul
* For those worried about the safety, using spotters, flying with abuddy, etc, though I am not an AMA member, I am a very safe engineerwho understands what safe means. No people or property was in range ofmy vehicle. I am safe and practical.
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