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Montreal, Quebec, Canada
About Me:
Engineer at flight simulator manufacturer CAE. 20 years flying R/C airplanes and helicopters. Just starting on FPV February 2011.
Please tell us a bit about your UAV interest
UAV airplanes.
Hometown:
Montreal
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"Well done Andy. Let me know when the PCB design package is ready and I will warm up my soldering iron.
Andrew"
Andrew"
"There may be others, but I found these three time parameters:
1. mavlink_system_time_t.time_boot_ms
2. mavlink_gps_raw_int_t.time_usec
3. mavlink_global_position_int_t.time_boot_ms
I checked one of my own tlog files and the three values looked…"
1. mavlink_system_time_t.time_boot_ms
2. mavlink_gps_raw_int_t.time_usec
3. mavlink_global_position_int_t.time_boot_ms
I checked one of my own tlog files and the three values looked…"
"As long as the VFR_HUD packet is being logged you will find the throttle parameter.
I don't think there is any mechanism for measuring RPM, so no way to log it. The closest you have is the throttle command.
Andrew"
I don't think there is any mechanism for measuring RPM, so no way to log it. The closest you have is the throttle command.
Andrew"
"And yes, the card works with Arducopter also. I have built up a V2.1 board (thanks to Andy for providing a blank PCB) and added some new symbology parameters. My version is heavily text based right now, but the OSD will allow for nicer graphics to…"
"Loiter is effectively navigation to a fixed point. If you are east of the desired loiter point, and the aircraft heading is pointing north, the aircraft is commanded to roll left to move back to the west and reduce the error. If you are east of…"
"No color unfortunately, just white text. "
"Thank you Andy. The BOM will save time. I started to get one out of Kicad, but it will be easier with yours. Probably won't have the PCB until mid to late February so I will get an order in to digikey before then. Should be OK for the resistors and…"
"Thank you Andy.
Ordered three PCB from OSHpark today. That part was painless - soldering those 0603 parts will be more of a challenge."
Ordered three PCB from OSHpark today. That part was painless - soldering those 0603 parts will be more of a challenge."
"If it goes Kickstarter, I am in. I am so tired of the limitations of the 7456 graphics, and your approach gets around that. There should be an opportunity for someone to come up with a product for sale.
Just interested in using it on the BrainFPV…"
Just interested in using it on the BrainFPV…"
"I saw the BrainFPV video and was impressed with the OSD - I liked the vector graphics, the ability to mask an area, and the double buffering. Overall more flexible than any of the 7456 based designs. Would your s/w run (with reasonable adaptation)…"
"Ordered one to work on OSD. Sounds like I have my winter project. Now to set up another development environment..."
"Given that it has full graphics with a mask layer it looks like it could be a nice alternative to the MinimOSD (and all the other MAX7456 chip based designs) to complement the AC - just needs a MAVLink interface module to substitute for the data…"
"The manual has a lot of good info - start here http://plane.ardupilot.com/wiki/table-of-contents/. There are quite a few sections and it takes a while for it all to sink in (at least it did for me) so be prepared to go back a few times.
This…"
This…"
"Anybody got any links to multicopters that use this size of equipment? No interest in buying one, but I sure am curious. "
"Instructions for building for Pixhawk can be found here. You can use Eclipse as an IDE - instructions are here.
Andrew"
Andrew"
"I like to have the time of day in my symbology to make it easier to match up recording with flights. The time data on the MAVLink used to be limited to time since the APM was booted, but given that we have a GPS available I used to add code to…"
