Help fund a new open source graphic OSD!

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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Thomas Oldbury February 10, 2011 at 11:49pm

@Randy, Thanks!
Thomas Oldbury February 10, 2011 at 11:49pm

@Pete, I'll PM you!
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Randy February 10, 2011 at 5:09pm

I think this is the first time there's been a post with a link to a funding site. very interesting and looks like you'll be fully funded in less than a day! good luck
Pete February 10, 2011 at 3:46pm

Thomas i live in the uk and i could help with the production of these boards where are you going to get them made.

I have a pick and place machine that i could do these on for you and i could show you where to get boards at a good price.

Cheers

Pete
Thomas Oldbury February 10, 2011 at 2:18pm

@Martint, Interesting! If you want to meet, I'd be happy to arrange a time. I'd like to fly with someone in my area, as well as get some advice. PM me if you're interested! :)
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Martint BuildYourOwnDrone.co.uk February 10, 2011 at 2:15pm

Hello Tom,

I have just been reading about your plans, they seem very interesting. What I also found very interesting was looking at your profile page, you only live about 10 miles away from me.
Thomas Oldbury February 10, 2011 at 1:40pm

Also note that those figures are for PAL. I think they will be slightly higher for NTSC.
Thomas Oldbury February 10, 2011 at 1:40pm

@Ben Levitt, If we use 192 pixels horizontal "data resolution", then we can transmit 24 bytes per line, and using all 21 lines gives us 504 bytes per frame, and 12.6KB/s, assuming no error correction or other overhead. This should be good enough for most antenna tracking/datalogging systems, right?
Ben Levitt February 10, 2011 at 1:03pm

Sure, I just suggested line 21 because I like the idea of using an existing standard, which would allow us to use a standard close caption scraping chip. But I guess using more lines could give us more bandwidth which is probably more important. :)
Thomas Oldbury February 10, 2011 at 11:32am

@Ben Levitt, This definitely planned, although more than line 21 can be used... why not the whole VBI, or at least most of it?

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