Thank you for your contributions over the years to ardupilot project. I was disappointed that you did not mention the name of developer for whole Andruav system. I am following Mr.Hefny's project for many years and he have worked hard (single handed) to make it this easy for us users. I see you mention his name in comments but it should have been upfront in video or atleast in description. Thank you.
There are 2 version of this software, one runs on android and one runs on pi, if you want the easiest way to get up and running go with an android phone, but if you want flexibility and features the pi version is the way to go. There are a number of issues with the phone connected directly to the flight controller over USB is that when you reboot the flight controller the android device sees the flight controller as a new device and won't reconnect automatically, using usb serial or bluetooth to serial adapter will get around that. The other main issue is that the tablet or phone in OTG mode is trying to power the flight controller (or usb serial) over usb, so it will drain the phone battery rather fast and wont accept a charge, the OTG cable needs to be modified with a resitor to set it into "DOCK" mode rather than "OTG" they are very similar but in dock mode the phone will accept charge as well as be USB host. Unfortunatly there is no standard for setting USB modes so different manufacturers use different resistance levels on my s4 it was 64.9k on the micro usb port. Im testing it today on my 6wd rover :)
With the STM32F & ATMEGA328 discontinued, the best system might be an android phone sending motor commands to a Z80 over its headphone connector. There are serious restrictions on when the phone can use networking & what apps can run with the screen off.
Tommy, yes, apparently an RPI can be used instead of the android phone and Hefny brought it up in his overview at the developer conference ( ruclips.net/video/c6wFTDcvxtQ/видео.html ) and he's also posted some videos of this working ( ruclips.net/video/iO-8admT8gY/видео.html ) but I haven't tested this myself yet.
Hello Randy, I wanted to ask you for some advice for my final year project. I am an electrical engineering student here at the University of Missouri St. Louis. I would really appreciate it if you can please point me in the right direction for a project me and my partner are thinking of.
Hey Randy. Great to see. Tried to get Andrew to look at this a few years back stocked to see developers looking at it. Very keen to try in the new Atomrc swordfish now they've put Param for ardu up online. Do you have any thoughts as to if this would work well instead of going the RPi road
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Thank you for your contributions over the years to ardupilot project. I was disappointed that you did not mention the name of developer for whole Andruav system. I am following Mr.Hefny's project for many years and he have worked hard (single handed) to make it this easy for us users. I see you mention his name in comments but it should have been upfront in video or atleast in description.
Thank you.
You are doing great things, thank you.
Wonderful, Randy, thanks again
There are 2 version of this software, one runs on android and one runs on pi, if you want the easiest way to get up and running go with an android phone, but if you want flexibility and features the pi version is the way to go.
There are a number of issues with the phone connected directly to the flight controller over USB is that when you reboot the flight controller the android device sees the flight controller as a new device and won't reconnect automatically, using usb serial or bluetooth to serial adapter will get around that.
The other main issue is that the tablet or phone in OTG mode is trying to power the flight controller (or usb serial) over usb, so it will drain the phone battery rather fast and wont accept a charge, the OTG cable needs to be modified with a resitor to set it into "DOCK" mode rather than "OTG" they are very similar but in dock mode the phone will accept charge as well as be USB host. Unfortunatly there is no standard for setting USB modes so different manufacturers use different resistance levels on my s4 it was 64.9k on the micro usb port.
Im testing it today on my 6wd rover :)
I am excited for the potential of this!
Thanks Randy, this is great!
With the STM32F & ATMEGA328 discontinued, the best system might be an android phone sending motor commands to a Z80 over its headphone connector. There are serious restrictions on when the phone can use networking & what apps can run with the screen off.
Love it Randy - i guess u could run it on a Android Raspberry pi as well and a cell modem ?
Tommy, yes, apparently an RPI can be used instead of the android phone and Hefny brought it up in his overview at the developer conference ( ruclips.net/video/c6wFTDcvxtQ/видео.html ) and he's also posted some videos of this working ( ruclips.net/video/iO-8admT8gY/видео.html ) but I haven't tested this myself yet.
Cool
Is it connected to pixhawk usb port and Android usb? I tried but could not receive pixhawk telemetry information. How do I connect?
Hello Randy,
I wanted to ask you for some advice for my final year project. I am an electrical engineering student here at the University of Missouri St. Louis. I would really appreciate it if you can please point me in the right direction for a project me and my partner are thinking of.
Hi Mohammad, OK, it's probably best to PM me on ArduPilot's Discord server. I'm "rmackay9"
Thanks
Hellosorry can yo help me pleased
This os de problem
Hey Randy. Great to see. Tried to get Andrew to look at this a few years back stocked to see developers looking at it.
Very keen to try in the new Atomrc swordfish now they've put Param for ardu up online.
Do you have any thoughts as to if this would work well instead of going the RPi road