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Pyrofer

That's pretty cool.

Have you tried to control it over the 3G data connection?
I have always wanted to see how bad the lag was with a dial-in serial connection to fly.

Pyrofer

I bought a servo tester off ebay that had 6 3pin connectors in parallel, great for testing all 4 motors and configuring them the same.
Only problem is its range isn't as large as it should be.

Pyrofer

Wow, I had one of those switches years ago ripped out of something random. Good idea to put the trimpots on and use it for a 6 pos switch though. I am just looking forward to playing with 4 aux channels! Thanks to Tommie for the Datenschlag making my 6channel receiver capable of having 4 aux channels

Pyrofer

I meant simple and flexible IN SOFTWARE. Ie, able to support as wide range of hardware as possible with as little configuration or manipulation of the code. My TX, Tommies TX, a bog standard TX should all work and be usable with little work on software. A well built framework for turning on and off ...

Pyrofer

I have a cheap 6ch TX and it sucks. Tommies Funkenschlag code for the AVR replaces the chip inside with a better solution and includes the data transfer mechanism. Currently I am building a from scratch TX using a PS2 pad and would love to see more support for features. What would be perfect is a dr...

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Can you update the .jar in build,as that's 5 days old and I would like to see the latest one.

Pyrofer

+1 for building it with Ice cream sticks. You could make it more stable by having it shorter with control surfaces near the prop. I would suggest a long tube with electronics/motor/battery all inside it and the prop sticking out the top. Have the 4 control surfaces just below the prop but continue t...

Pyrofer

Check out the new Java MwGUI in another thread here, its quite good and should get you by.
Progress is rapid and I have no problems running it.

The project is here,
https://github.com/treymarc/mwi-swing

Pyrofer

Most RX have a signal LED, could we take a wire off that to an input pin on the Flight controller to tell it when its got signal?
Then we would have a sane way to detect RX loss on all receivers (that have a LED).

Pyrofer

Its a Canon DSLR, I don't think I could manage it on a hat!

I was aware of the difference :p Trying to be funny.

Need to find a flying buddy in South London to film.

Pyrofer

Thats just FANCY flying, this is 3D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMIUw0T960U

Need a camera man, its impossible to fly and film at the same time

Pyrofer

If it's a copy of one that gets updated firmware then that at least is one thing!

Mind you, for that price I am tempted to run the open source OSD stuff on it, there are several based on atmel and that max chip, so I imagine it should be possible to find FW that runs on that hardware.

Pyrofer

Seems cheap, but wtf ? 1.9.2? Does it use telemetry mode, or GUI data?

Is it compatible with 2.0 serial? 2.1? Are there updates?
Is the code available?

It's money wasted if it doesn't get updated or work with latest versions. Open code?

Pyrofer

" I hope that EosBandi will continue to maintain it's solution."

I don't think there was any suggestion that he stop!
This is just an alternative and I am only suggesting ideas, no need to panic :p

Pyrofer

Really? I guess it's all personal preference. Maybe have some options in the GUI for what you prefer. I quite like the growing circle approach I have now and think it looks nice. Whatever Kos does I am sure it will be great. I find the colour change from red to green makes it visually easier to tell...

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K-os, just an idea for motor power... On the quads in the GUI I made I used a circle that slowly filled as motor power increased. I also changed colour with power. Another option was a pie chart type circle that "pac-man"d more open/closed to show power. More interesting than the bars I th...

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I think having a compile time option, ifdef forcegui = send all data all the time would be great, sounds like it would solve my needs and that of the OSD developer in question. No need to send any data to the copter to get it to output for the gui/osd. It could still happily receive GPS data on the ...

Pyrofer

I second this request. In fact I would like it as a simple compile time option to force GUI data out. That way a GPS could send its data into the serial port while the GUI received the telemetry out at the same time. This would make life MUCH easier for me The GPS doesn't need to receive anything so...

Pyrofer

So why not just admit the 328p is a dead end and tell people not to use it now? If the problem is fitting GPS code in, its the 328 that's the problem not the way you attach the GPS. Or are you saying you can fit all the GPS code for waypoints etc into the 328p? In which case where is the problem? If...

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Using windows 7 64bit.

Pyrofer

Couple of suggestions (get used to it, its all I have right now!) Disable the buttons such as "start, stop" when it's not connected to a serial port as that seems to lock up the app if you press them. Can you have a default set of PID and checkboxes show on startup rather than the blank pa...

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I did a git pull earlier today, so should be up to date Putting together a DIY TX using a 2.4ghz module from ebay and a PS2 pad using Tommie's code as the base. Tested my GPS today and it seemed the position, while constant was offset a lot from my real position. A bit worried by this. I don't mind ...

Pyrofer

I uncommented the aux2 on pin 8 line, and it works fine.

Check your config.h for that line.

Pyrofer

again, nice work

can we have the debug boxes?
I was checking my ram usage and had to swap back to the 'other' gui to do so :p

How are you planning to do the expo curves etc?
Thanks again for this lovely work

Pyrofer

Indeed, I should have posted that when I found out the same thing. The ArduinoISP sketch included in examples DOES NOT WORK unless you change it to 9600 baud before uploading. Also, if you have an auto-reseting board you need to disable the reset or when AVRDUDE tries to connect it resets the arduin...

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Minor bug-ettes... The Artificial Horizon appears to be backwards on my quad? Pitch forward shows the Horizon pitching back, roll left shows it roll right etc. Also, the PID items don't appear for me. I get the word PID to the left of the checkbox items. I am running Tommies FW from about a week ago...

Pyrofer

K-os, congrats!!

Some great progress. This is going to be my GUI of choice from now on! Love the Artificial Horizon

Wonder where you got that idea :p

It looks so much better than *cough* some other options already

Pyrofer

I am VERY much against this. Wasting flash to tell the GUI what version the serial protocol is? If flash is so critical how do you justify this. You have argued over a few bytes of flash while improving FLIGHT code and making things better, and now want to waste that flash on something that will mak...

Pyrofer

Just had this brought to my attention,
http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/gui ... man-filter
It shows a java app for drawing a nice artificial horizon.

Its open source so maybe something we could integrate with the new MwGUI?

Pyrofer

Why not make the arms part of the PCB like others do? Or can you not shape the PCB ?

Pyrofer

I wasn't going to comment the first or second times I saw this, but again?

Are you ever going to miss a chance to have a go? This attitude sucks.
Everybody else has moved on already but you seem to want to have a little dig in every single post you make.

Pyrofer

http://www.thingamafob.com/mpu-9150-from-invensense/

I can't wait for these to start appearing on breakout boards

Pyrofer

the 3D part of that worries me, I often only get 2d fix due to poor gps signal, does that mean it won't light?
Is it actually a 3D fix only led or a "GPS fix" led? Can you tell?

Pyrofer

How did you connect that LED on the GPS board? What pins does it go to and did you add a limiting resistor to it as well?
I *hope* that is a "GPS FIX" indicator, as that's what I want too

Pyrofer

Talk about personal Hamburger, your posts are the ones getting that way. I am promoting progress not stagnation. That is all. The only thing I can be bothered to respond to is this, "next thing you gonna tell me which OS real men run on their computers - what is it, netbsd?" Way to make as...

Pyrofer

Dongs, I could discuss this with you for ages, but we are derailing the thread.
Instead PM me some links to good cheap stm32 boards.

Pyrofer

The unused parts shouldn't contribute to code size, so unused for multicopter parts don't hurt multicopters.

It does get a bit messy in the code with lots of odd stuff you don't need, but better that than 10 versions, one for each kind of device.

Pyrofer

This is getting a bit off topic Dongs, so lets try not to hog the thread but, "Stm32 from good luck buy is 23$ shipped. Tarduino pro mini is what, 19.95? Reuse your current imu. I see no reason to keep 8bit" My Controller board was £50 with arduino328p and IMU all IN ONE. Do you see that l...

Pyrofer

Dongs, sure, love to.
Post me a new all in one board with 32bit cpu and IMU and I will use it.

Sadly, a lot of people are limited by cost and thus stuck with the 8bit.
I applaud Alex for wanting to keep the 8bit option open to people with low budgets or existing hardware.

Pyrofer

"Caveat: my hardware is not from apple." A Hackint0sh. Great. No WONDER you don't want to change anything! Those things are about as stable as a drunk on a pogo-stick trying to cross a rope bridge. If you fart at the wrong time it stops working. If you are willing to take the responsibilit...

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I wasn't being specific, just more general in that we should be pushing forward not holding back. Newer devkits are part of progress. Most open source projects are the opposite and insist on having the latest version of everything. I have never before seen a project that insisted on keeping many yea...

Pyrofer

Alex, I see and mostly agree with you. However, if you want to keep the bootloader, if you want to keep the Arduino IDE then something else has to change. Expecting developers to have recent devkits is not unreasonable, it's not something that will bother the users behind it either. It's also someth...

Pyrofer

i2c is probably there somewhere, I have the same issue with my quad.

You would have to find the i2c bus, probably best to tap onto the end of the pullup resistors. If you have a schematic for the board not so hard. If you have a scope, not so hard.
If you have neither. good luck!

Pyrofer

"im pretty shure that this are reasons why so many people that are not coder or IT specialists like to use it." Yes. That's true. What Hamburger was trying to do was compile the GUI, which hardly anybody needs to do as compiled versions are provided. I am not sure if he did any code change...

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Hamburger, It seems your desire is to keep everything just as it once was and never make progress. YOU can easily update your OS, not so easily your hardware but are adamant that you should be able to do it all on your old obsolete system. That's fine, but don't expect to hold everybody else, and th...

Pyrofer

I have to say, it compiles fine for me.

Pyrofer

That twitching looks like vibration maybe? Put low pass filtering on for the sensors?

And Dude, PUT a shirt on next time.

Pyrofer

Loving the new GUI, lots of potential!

Runs and works fine, probably easier and quicker than the processing engine GUI

Looking forward to the progress on this.

Pyrofer

It was the 32 bit GUI I tried.
606 fw and 606 conf, wouldn't work and get data. I had to revert to 504.

I fixed the VBATREF issue by renaming it myself to make it compile.

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I use Windows 7 64bit.

What would have changed from 504 to 606 that was OS dependant?

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