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Help fund a new open source graphic OSD!

Posted by Thomas Oldbury on February 10, 2011 at 5:30am

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I'm working on Super OSD at the moment. Super OSD is an open source (open hardware and open source software) on screen display module designed for FPVers, but also drone flyers. I have already produced PCBs (below) and I am working on some initial engineering prototypes. What I want to do is to put the boards into production, for an initial run of 20 I need about $850 (US dollars.)

 

The code, schematics and other related projects are here: http://code.google.com/p/super-osd

 

In more detail, Super OSD fills the gap I see between low cost text based OSDs (like Remzibi), and high cost graphical OSDs (like Eagle Tree Pro, RVOSD, Dragon OSD, and many others.) It's a fully graphical OSD, with a display of 192x128 pixels. It will sell for about $80, with plans to reduce that further.

 

Super OSD will support all the basic features FPV/drone flyers are accustomed to, including a standard HUD, with altitude, GPS position, variometers, and more. It does datalogging to a 2MB serial flash, too. But it will also support virtual games. These are games played as a single player, or with multiple players (coming soon.) A basic video of the game engine working: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8CRxstJ_Z4

 

I also would like to know what features DIY Drones members would like to see on it, so if you have an idea, write a comment on the thread. :) Hopefully the end result will be a very powerful OSD module at a low price point.

 

You can contribute on IndieGoGo: http://www.indiegogo.com/Super-OSD-Lite

This is an abridged version of my original post here: http://www.diydrones.com/forum/topics/super-osd-open-source-osd

 

Many Thanks!

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Comments

  • Ben Levitt February 10, 2011 at 11:10am
    Looks awesome!  I'd like to see the ability to embed telemetry data into the line-21 / EIA-608 standard closed caption format.  Then we should be able to build a very cheap ground device to scrape telemetry data back out to a uart.  This would be awesome for antenna tracking and off-board data logging.  :)
  • Riccardo Kuebler February 10, 2011 at 8:20am
    Tom,
    I would vote for implementing it on UavDevBoard (too).
    Ric
  • Thomas Oldbury February 10, 2011 at 7:21am
    It could be done. What is the interface? I2C, UART, something else...? There are I2C and GPS/UART ports on the board, and the low voltage analog inputs can in theory also be used for bidirectional data transfer, if necessary.
  • DaveyWaveyBunsenBurner February 10, 2011 at 7:18am

    Ardupilot Mega.

     

    If the OSD can be configured to relay APM data (such as the mode, Waypoint etc) that would be super lovely!

  • Thomas Oldbury February 10, 2011 at 7:15am
    What is APM? (Sorry, newbie to all these terms.) If it's a mostly software thing, it should be doable.
  • Sebastian Gralla February 10, 2011 at 7:04am
    an APM interface would be great!
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