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Powerful DIY Ground Station

Posted by Guto Santaella on September 17, 2013 at 7:00am

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Hi guys,

I would like to show a wonderful ground station solution achieved by Roberto Bonfim here in Brazil, he used a dual screen lap top Acer Iconia 6120, it is a dual screen monitor with a third extra video output, in this configuration you can arrange three different screens as shows the images bellow.

It could help a lot when you are developing a new system and would like to monitoring sensors, HUD, Map position or other parameter you need. Any possibilities... 

GREAT JOB ROBERTO!

Guto Santaella

Here showing three different  screen..

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Here is the Acer Iconia 6120...

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  • Moderator
    Gary Mortimer September 18, 2013 at 5:31am

    How much work is being done with these setups, I would be willing to bet a lot less than set and forget commercial systems that are out there. Its fluff and stuff for the Xbox generation. A little harsh but I think reality.

  • Developer
    Arthur Benemann September 17, 2013 at 10:11am

    @Robert: 

    Here are some LCDs that I found some time ago (>=1000 nits):

    http://www.sunlcd.net/sunlight-readable-lcd/7-sunlight-readable-lcd...

    http://www.litemax.com/PD_Products_Detail_36_39_3397_US_utf-8.html#...

    http://www.ultra-displays.com/model-0835/

    I just wonder how much they cost? And what is the minimum order.

  • Rob_Lefebvre September 17, 2013 at 10:07am

    I wonder if this would work well:

    http://www.robotshop.com/productinfo.aspx?pc=RB-Mim-12&lang=en-US

    Brightness is not bad at 375 nits.  Only thing is it's touchscreen and I don't really need that.  Would love to find a decent, cheap, small ~7" USB monitor.

  • Rob_Lefebvre September 17, 2013 at 10:01am

    try this: open the MP and double click on HUD and it will "detach" that panel for you. ;-)

    That's awesome!  Ok, now I'm off to find a high brightness, small screen to plug into my laptop!  I would love to have a full size map on one side of the main laptop screen, and a small HUD to put on my transmitter box!

  • Roberto Bonfim September 17, 2013 at 9:37am

    @Nicholas, after connect Mission Planner with APM go to ACTION -> Raw Sensor View... the 3rd window appears!

  • Nicholas Witham September 17, 2013 at 9:26am

    try this: open the MP and double click on HUD and it will "detach" that panel for you. ;-)

    Holy cow, that's awesome.

  • Distributor
    Guto Santaella September 17, 2013 at 9:11am

    @R_Lefebvre,

    try this: open the MP and double click on HUD and it will "detach" that panel for you. ;-)

  • Distributor
    Guto Santaella September 17, 2013 at 9:06am

    @Arthur, it looks familiar for you? ;-)

    (Great job from you with DroidPlanner, congratulations!) 

  • Nicholas Witham September 17, 2013 at 9:01am

    How do you get 3 different windows of mission planner on the one PC? Do you open MP 3 times?

  • Rob_Lefebvre September 17, 2013 at 9:00am

    Neat.  How do you blow up the different parts of MP to be on different screens?  I've never seen that before.

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