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VirtualRobotix Telemetry Board OSD , JETI BOX and Long Range GPRS

Posted by Roberto Navoni on November 12, 2011 at 8:00am

Dear Friend,

I'm happy to present my last creation :

 

Original blog post : http://www.virtualrobotix.com/profiles/blogs/virtualrobotix-telemetry-board

This telemetry board use AVR 644P as micro controller the code is developed in C++ using some Arduino library. Great Thanks to Sandro Benigno for OSD routine , and other people that are working on OSD code and other opensource library that I use in my new product.

 

The Board

  • ATmega644P 20 Mhz with Arduino bootloader
  • MAX7456 monochrome on-screen display
  • Serial that support Jeti RTX telemetry data link.
  • I2C that support Aurora9 RTX telemetry channel (work in progress).
  • GPRS Module for long range comunication that using tcp/ip channel . (option)
  • Serial port that support Mavlink protocol for interconnect board that use that kind of protocol as Arducopter(32) , Arduplane ecc ecc.
  • Is possible to customize the protocol for interrconnection with Mikrokopter , Multiwii or Aeroquad platform and also other platform that you like if you have documentation of comunication protocol.

Is possible to recive the telemetry as overlay of video during the flight or on your prefered Jeti or Aurora radio. Other interface will be implement also on futaba and graupner radio.

All the data available on the quad is visible by telemetry option , we are also working on realtime setting of parameter during the fly directly for example jeti box.

As option is possible to mount GPRS module so you can interconnect your ground station by gprs so in case of lost your quad you can try to found it using long range telemetry module.

 

The price will be define in the next week and depend of option that you want.

Any kind of suggestions is welcome.

Best

Roberto

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    Roberto Navoni November 12, 2011 at 2:16pm

    Hi ThomasB,

    so the telemetry board is connected to Flight Control that support Mavlink. The GPRS module support TCP/IP socket. The telemetry board use a serial board of micro for manage and trasmit data by GPRS.

    On Telemetry board you can connect a ip present in internet and trasmit and recive data .

    In my test I'm try to connect Mission Planner by socket using GPRS module inside telemetry board.

  • ThomasB November 12, 2011 at 11:11am

    Hi Roberto,

    Seems that you have done a lot of work in the last weeks. Gratulation! Nice sandwich.

    One question, how do you connect with GPRS to the copter?

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