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Bidireccional RC transmitter with ARM7, Xbee PRO, Bluetooth and a PDA.

Posted by jlcortex on February 25, 2009 at 11:30am

Hi,I am working in this project, it is a bidireccional RC transmitter.Sometimes, i think than conventional transmitters start to have no sense for uav projectsThis is a proyect with a small board with ARM7 (NXP LPC2xxx) and a Xbee PRO with 60 mW (similar performance than standard transmitter) and a Bluetooth module to connect with a PDA.This board have 9 analog inputs for joysticks, and other controls, battery voltage..., it try to be a whole solution with charger connector for charge transmitter battery and PDA battery...We are working in a graph tool in order to show flight instruments in PDA.jlcortex

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  • M1D4P5 February 26, 2009 at 1:43pm
    Hello Michal!
    It was my first idea... I thought in use my playstation console to control my quad but I didn't like this kind of control... it didn't look like intuitive enought for me. I know that some guys enjoy this PS and Wii controls, but the old FUTABA's like and PC-Flight-Commander sticks are the best.

    G-luck
    midaps
  • Michal B February 26, 2009 at 12:58pm
    What about this simple cheap joystick... 09032-03-L_i_ma.jpg
    This could be enough for takeoff and landing.
  • M1D4P5 February 26, 2009 at 11:51am
    Great Idea! Once @ globalspec I found the sticks, but the retailer didn't send me any info about it. :(
    Good luck with the projects!

    Midaps
  • jlcortex February 26, 2009 at 11:18am
    Hi M1D4P5,

    I have a walkera transmitter from a broken helicopter, this transmiters and i have also a e-sky usb transmitter, both sticks are suitable for this design, they are not good quality but i think it could be enought.

    another idea is to use spare parts of wfly transmitters, i have a 9 channels wfly and it seems good quality and it can no be expensive.
  • M1D4P5 February 26, 2009 at 10:26am
    Hello man, great initiative! Once a tryed to build something similar my FUTABA radio but I didn't find the sticks. The electronic and the case were easy... but to find the good sticks still a mistery. Did you find it? Good sticks are the first step to a good control.
  • Michael Evans February 25, 2009 at 7:34pm
    really neat. you could use a G1
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