OK, let me explain what I'm doing here. A lot of you realize that what I'm building here is more of a tiny UAV than a toy drone, but I want to have enough processing power on-board that I can do whatever I want.
How its different is my design philosophy in that what I'm trying to do here is shift the majority of my work to a software domain from a hardware/power one. I'm just going to breadboard and build the drone, but all of my flight control will be done with TCP/IP stack with the processor running a service daemon that provides the guidance I'm looking for. It will be based on a force-moment-mass model based on empirical tests (and weighting the darn thing) that will formally implement a drone control that is smooth, scientific and possibly autonomous that is 100% done in software (based on SENSOR and ACTUATOR section in the physical design). In other words, it will be sweet once finished, capable of long-range semi-assisted flight. I'm thinking of integrating 4/5G data (via USB model model) but only pushing across limited numeric data (caching its video) to keep my usage within plan, but I hope to be able to send a command that will return (via FTP over 4/5G) a nice compressed JPEG still whenever I want to see a location. I'll just pull the saved video off via manual FTP via wifi once it comes back into range, or just popping the SDCard on the cam itself (which might made more sense, though less techy). Getting close to that time I need to start ordering stuff from mouser but I need to get a complete BOM together for the physical stuff. I'll keep you guys in the loop on this one (as a lot of the issues I'm solving are directly related to your projects like voltage conversion) but I want to warn people that the final result may not be open-source as I might choose to release it as a boilerplate commercial version. However I can still make notes here to help in your own projects, and you can shadow my development and processes to develop your own (possibly open source). On Monday, January 30, 2017 at 6:19:30 PM UTC-7, woody stanford wrote: > > I posted the remote control for this in Software, but I put a bunch of > hardware in it so I thought I'd post it here. > > > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/beagleboard/software/evSIUcuWfUY > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/7a082659-b335-4ebc-8b96-bf16f4fe0b90%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
