The team designing the hardware groundstation for ArduPilot Mega is making great progress. Above is the latest case prototype from Scott Plunkett. Needless to say, there will be more buttons. Also the screen is a blue/white dot matrix upgrade from the current one. Note the dial pot for real-time PID tweaking while the autopilot is in the air!
Who wouldn't like a ground station display like this? (see second picture below) OK I admit it's a Saitek P46 Instrument panel driven by FS-X flight simulator but there is no reason not to develop a similar display driven by the ardusatation. What I am suggesting is a "Glass Cockpit" Primary Flight Display (PFD) for the ardustation which represents the telemetry data in such a way that it can be interpreted all at once just like in a real airplane. With such a display the drone could be flown entirely on instruments. The data required to feed such a display is already collected by the ardustation and could be relayed to another micro controller through a serial port. The second micro controller would be responsible for formatting and presenting the data graphically and possibly communicating commands back to the ardustation possibly via touch screen. Another possibility is to hack the Saitek PZ 46 and feed it through ardustation if that is possible? Please contact me if you are interested in this project.
Here's a typical glass cockpit PFD setup for instrument flight. I would add a heading bug for return home and a distance to home readout as well as battery status bar graphs.
ok here is what I am working on. An ArduStstion with new SW and a 9oomhx RX from plane and video screen all on small wrist mounted strap on the forearm.
Earl
My 72mhz synth RX does allow that. I will look for a solution for others..
Maby in SW not to have r/e/s/a or control channel changed for 5 min or something like that.
Earl
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We decided to upgrade the processor to a more powerful one, and otherwise expand the functions, so it's still in development.
Who wouldn't like a ground station display like this? (see second picture below) OK I admit it's a Saitek P46 Instrument panel driven by FS-X flight simulator but there is no reason not to develop a similar display driven by the ardusatation. What I am suggesting is a "Glass Cockpit" Primary Flight Display (PFD) for the ardustation which represents the telemetry data in such a way that it can be interpreted all at once just like in a real airplane. With such a display the drone could be flown entirely on instruments. The data required to feed such a display is already collected by the ardustation and could be relayed to another micro controller through a serial port. The second micro controller would be responsible for formatting and presenting the data graphically and possibly communicating commands back to the ardustation possibly via touch screen. Another possibility is to hack the Saitek PZ 46 and feed it through ardustation if that is possible? Please contact me if you are interested in this project.
Here's a typical glass cockpit PFD setup for instrument flight. I would add a heading bug for return home and a distance to home readout as well as battery status bar graphs.
http://www.diydrones.com/forum/topics/ardustation-strange-behavior?...
Tks,
Leonardo
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Maby in SW not to have r/e/s/a or control channel changed for 5 min or something like that.
Earl
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