In my first blog post I did not realize that it was published. I thought I had saved it as a draft. I am sure there are typos and grammar mistakes. My apologies. Hopefully, I will get this one right before I publish. Thank you, dear reader, for your patience
Ok, this post will cover an overview of my RVJET with the new MyFlyDream Autopilot. Many of you are familiar with their antenna tracking system. I believe the autopilot came out around third quarter 2013. I received my autopilot in the mail yesterday and will receive the RVJET today. I want to qualify that I am not being paid or sponsored for this post. My impressions are that of a consumer and developer. I do not want make the impression that I am advertising. I will be working in the near future with other airframes and two other autopilots. This is my first build in 4 years and I want to get in the air fairly soon. I will be using a mixture of new parts and components that I have had in storage. I will detail what is new and what will change in the future to make this system more robust. This build will serve as a quick FPV, property monitoring and testing. In future posts I will reveal newly announced technology that we are experimenting with and capabilities we are hoping to achieve with both flgiht systems and ground control stations. Convenience and ease of portability will be a lot of my focus. Now on to the build ideas and details.
RVJET with stock servos and recommended power pack (will detail later)
Zippy Compact 3s 5000mah LiPo 25c Series (will run two in parallel in the future for endurance) (Thinking about a reserve/emergency battery switching with a 2000 mah cell in the future)
MyFlyDream Autopilot (will experiment with pixhawk and parallela boards in the future)
CasteCreations CC BEC
JR XP9303 Air Tx w Spektrum module and JR R921 DSM2 Rx (will be switching to Taranis with 1W Openlrs Module and 1W module hacked into a Rx for flight control and two way communication with Mission Planner and Droid Planner, joystick control and separate camera ground control through a single radio link ) *this will be detailed in its own blog in the near future. This is exciting stuff!
GS will be a either or a combination of a Lenovo laptop, Samsung Galaxy 3, and an Asus Transformer Infinity Android (for now I will be using a JY-MCU HC-06 Bluetooth for data connection with android planner on the ground)
FPV Equipment *archaic - five years old lol
KX191 from Range Video. I will be upgrading to several different cameras including (FLIR, Pixam Ultra DNR, and TBS69 for night flying)
900mhz 500mw AV Transmitter w IBCrazy air screw
900mhz dual rx with oracle diversity
IB Crazy Mad Mushroom and 14 dbi patch antenna
(I will be purchasing 1.3 ghz system. I am hoping that I can get away with not having to use my xbee extends past intial phase. I am hoping to make a link with the 433 uhf for telemetry and flight control.) (I also will be purchasing the AAT tracker from MyFlyDream as well. I will probably use a helical spiral antenna with the tracker.)
Two types of goggles. I will be upgrading in the near future. There will be dedicated blog posts for the ground station. Everything with explanations in parenthesis will be expanded on and have its own focus. I will also talk about why I chose the components that I have. The ground station will especially be exciting as it evolves. I have some ideas so stay tuned!!
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Any updates ?
What i want to know is if its possible to splice the ublox gps going to the APM and have the audio modem from the myflydream read the same gps values which it can send down the audio channel via the vtx.
Thank you. I am just getting back into it. I hope that I can keep it interesting.
I have really enjoyed reading all your blogs about your projects!! Keep up the good work.