About MeI'm a LabVIEW programmer/user by profession and I'm also a keen hobbyist/maker so I came across DIY Drones on my hunt for my next project. (Possibly a quadrotor heli...)I saw the groundstation program and downloaded the code to have a look. I couldn't resist modifying the code to be more efficient and 'proper' and I tinkered with the UI.Ground station Beta 2, MB mod v1 UI Preview
Just a little preview mind, I'm in the middle of refactoring the code to make it scalable. This is my way of giving back to the open source community. I am interested in any comments about desired features in the ground station code, such as integration with google maps, custom controls that look like airplane controls, etc is possible.Credit is due to automatik for the current version of the ground station code that I based my mod on.
Chester,
you cannot see the aircraft data in visual studio unless you have dedicated application ( GCS) developed for it.Meaning it is generic. Our Opensource autopilot can send serial data based on specific format/protocol which gets displayed/decoded on the GCS screen. The data can be sent via Xbee or over any serial connection. The LV version of GCS is available for free here developed by team here. You can download either ver of it by Automatic or Dr.Mark or by Jordi. Use Search function or @ root of this post.
Thx Mark for the update. Seems to me like being bound to a paying dev environement is not ideal for a community project like this one. But i will definitely give Labview a closer look!
Edouard- I forgot to mention, you can download a 30 day trial here: http://www.ni.com/trylabview
Its not free software, but if you find yourself near the end of the 30 days still wanting to use it for a bit longer, phone up your local NI branch and request a trial extension.
I'm looking forwards to collaborating on this. Jonathan- thanks for the offer, I will be sure to do just that! I too have taken about 11 training courses that NI offers (ouch!) but I haven't sat any exams.
Dr. Mike- thanks for that link, I took a look at it and its a brilliant base to start with with plenty of scope for improvement and expansion. (Having someone with 30 years of aircraft design on the GCS team is wonderful)
Edouard H- LabVIEW (LV) is a graphical software programming environment made by National Instruments (NI) and in recent years it has grown to become an extremely powerful tool for large application development and processing of data. Once I started using and training on LabVIEW, I now never want to go back to Assembly/C/VHDL/VB/.net code ever again! (And yes- LabVIEW can replace all those by targetting all the relevant platforms)
All GCS developers: I've set up a Google Code repository and automatik is going to start by loading it with the latest code. I'll start a thread with the current GCS contributors and those who have volunteered, so we're all on the same page on the plan and who is doing what.
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you cannot see the aircraft data in visual studio unless you have dedicated application ( GCS) developed for it.Meaning it is generic. Our Opensource autopilot can send serial data based on specific format/protocol which gets displayed/decoded on the GCS screen. The data can be sent via Xbee or over any serial connection. The LV version of GCS is available for free here developed by team here. You can download either ver of it by Automatic or Dr.Mark or by Jordi. Use Search function or @ root of this post.
Visual Studio 2008 Express - Free.
Visual Studio 2008 Standard - $200
Its not free software, but if you find yourself near the end of the 30 days still wanting to use it for a bit longer, phone up your local NI branch and request a trial extension.
Dr. Mike- thanks for that link, I took a look at it and its a brilliant base to start with with plenty of scope for improvement and expansion. (Having someone with 30 years of aircraft design on the GCS team is wonderful)
Edouard H- LabVIEW (LV) is a graphical software programming environment made by National Instruments (NI) and in recent years it has grown to become an extremely powerful tool for large application development and processing of data. Once I started using and training on LabVIEW, I now never want to go back to Assembly/C/VHDL/VB/.net code ever again! (And yes- LabVIEW can replace all those by targetting all the relevant platforms)
Which dev environment are you guys using for Labview? Is there a free version available?
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