We know you love DIYDrones... so here is the Valentine's gift from the Dev Team! Yeah, we love you back. LOL =)
Anyway, in fact the title of this post could also be "ArduCAM OSD Project meets Michael Oborne"!!!
This tool makes setting up the awesome MinimOSD board super easy!
You can also buy from your local distributor, like JDrones.
Now you can:
- enable and disable panels;
- positioning panels by drag or numeric input;
- save and load layouts from file;
- save and load layouts from board's EEPROM;
- test video mode switching with adaptive layout;
- update firmware;
- update character set;
- customize background picture;
- set grid on/off;
- test the layout with telemetry logs from Mission Planner;
If you want to know more about each feature, check this wiki page.
To upgrade your MinimOSD board just went to our download area and grab the "OSD Config" and "MinimOSD 1.9 Pack".
An update pack contains two files: the Firmware (.hex) and the CharSet (.mcm).
Pay attention to the right update order. The tutorials are linked below:
- "Update Firmware" (it adds support to upload the character set);
- "Update Charset".
I'm super happy with the progress of ArduCAM project.
Now with Michael aboard... the sky is the limit just the start!
Enjoy your new toy! ;) There is much more coming out.
Note: The battery remaining icon was temporarily disabled due it's a work in progress on APM code.
Comments
I've got to be the most unlucky, or perhaps dimmest Quadcopter noob in the pack!
I've just upgraded to the new APM 2, which is spectacular, updated FW to 2.6, and wired up my NEW, REPLACEMENT MINIMOSD board, only to find it's behaving the same as the first one I sent back to 3DR.
Initially I got the "waiting for mavlinks" message, unplugged the power, replugged it a few times before it once worked, now it does not. At first I tried soldering tabs and running off only the APM after fears I might've cooked the last one, but that didn't work.
I'm now powering it via APM on one side, and 12v the other (de-soldered tabs again) and getting a red LED each side all good, and it's passing on the video, it's just not overlaying any data.
I see there are no concise instructions as to how to wire up the APM 2 to the minimOSD, so I just used the telemetry pin outs. Does the APM 2 TX pin go to the MinimOSD RX pin for eg?
I've also updated to the new Mavlink 1.0 OSD hex, it's behaving itself normally throughout that side of it.
What in friks name am I doing wrong people?????
@Damian, Yep, for sure there was an offset. In a too short distance it may jumps a bit because the GPS is not so precise. Looking at the MP's map zoomed closely you will see that the GPS is kinda jumpy in a range of 5 to 10 meters.
@Damian: Glad you had a pleasant experience! ;)
The arrow will point towards the home.
E.g.: If you fly straight far from your position it will point at you.
@Grips: Yes it is. The video output is the one closest to the edge of the board.
@Chris Kreuzer: If you're using the two stages, you need to feed the second one (video IN/OUT edge).
The board will work with just USB only if your chose to tie the two power stages soldering top and bottom jumpers. The instructions are here on Wiki. ;)
@Vaeddyn: Yep. The same ones.
So the same pins that the MinimOSD normally connects to the ArduPilot board with?
@Vaeddyn, one side of your MinimOSD has exactly the same pinout of your cable (six pins).
Those pins have even a reference to the colors of your FTDI cable: "GRN" means "green wire" and "BLK" means "black wire".
@Mark, glad you like it! =) I hope you can get yours soon.
Thanks Sandro, uBEC it is then. I had intended to use a board camera as per the specs below, however I expect it not to be compatible with the graphics chip as indicated in some other thread I read somewhere because of its resolution. If that is the case it will be a trusty KX171.
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