Tuesday 14 January 2014

FPV Video




I was thinking, just now, wouldn't it be great if instead of using an lcd monitor screen mounted on the controller, or the traditional rc video goggles like these:
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Perhaps a hybrid like google glass would be fun to use.
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You could record the pilots view, and also record the quad view in the HUD then possibly link this video feed remotely to a live service such as Livestream or Ustream (Or your military commander....). 

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or this: 














or with thermal imager:

Monday 6 January 2014

Update - LM1881 chip

Unable to get the sync chip to sync video correctly. Both pictures are there, but not in sync.
Using the basic PALdemo code for Arduino TVout: http://playground.arduino.cc/Main/TVout

And the live video-out from 808 #16 camera.

Both going into the LM1881 chip.


Thursday 2 January 2014

Motivation.

"people often ask me why big companies have trouble innovating while small companies seem to be able to do it so easily."http://recode.net/2014/01/01/can-do-vs-cant-do-culture/

I've been thinking about buying my first RC Plane: A bixler 1.1 with Ardupilot. My finger keeps wavering over the 'buy it' button but it's the conflict of cost with my weekly financial budgeting that keeps me from going through with the purchase. Anyway, my thoughts: I thought as I'm doing this project mostly for myself, and for my own education. I'll be sharing it freely online and making the code available for all. But I can't help thinking, it would be really nice if I could get that Bixler from the efforts I'm putting in. Anyway, whatever. I'm still doing this project no-matter.