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PostPosted: Tue Nov 22, 2011 1:08 pm 
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How about support for Futaba 7C R/C control?

We've been talking about it.

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PostPosted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 9:18 am 
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In case someone are subscribing to this topic:

kurte wrote:
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Yeah!!! :D :D :D - In case anyone missed this posting earlier. It is great news to hear that the A-Pod is about to be released... I know it must be very close as there is now a link to the product up under the Hexapod kits: http://www.lynxmotion.com/c-154-a-pod.aspx

And a section in the assembly instructions for the Apod, including a tutorial and code that was adapted from the latest phoenix code for the PS2 with special controls to manipulate the additional things on the A-Pod!!! (http://www.lynxmotion.com/driver.aspx?Topic=assem04)

Again this is great news!
Kurt


I did some work last month on the Phoenix code to make A-Pod work for PS-2 control, the code can be downloaded from here: http://www.lynxmotion.com/images/html/build184.htm

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 27, 2012 11:14 pm 
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Hey Zenta,


what do you think if you didn't have to use the BAP and you used something with some real horsepower like a faster arduino? I'm just surprised how much you made that first Apod video do a couple years ago just running a single 16mhz processor... fantastic work!

PS Alan,
I also have a t7c its a fantastic controller, take a look at the code I emailed you earlier as what I'm planning on doing with my phoenix. I'm using that Er9x transmitter though and I have 8 channels to abuse!
basicly a small teensy2.0 with some c code on it that converts the pulsin values to a single serial string, the code can afford to be sloppy "im still learning" because thats the only thing the teensy is doing pwm -> serial.

Zenta did that with the co-bap on his phoenix a while ago... I think right?

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 1:01 pm 
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Aaron,

the teensy is a cool idea, but the DIY board is already available!

http://store.diydrones.com/product_p/br-ppme.htm

Also has some fail-safe that would be good for Quad-rotor heli.

I'm still trying to learn the T7C sufficiently to program it for my new Align T-REX 450 heli!

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 2:40 pm 
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LikWidChz wrote:
Hey Zenta,
what do you think if you didn't have to use the BAP and you used something with some real horsepower like a faster arduino? I'm just surprised how much you made that first Apod video do a couple years ago just running a single 16mhz processor...


What Arduino are you referring to? FYI they are also 16MHz...

If I should consider an upgrade it would be something like a PIC32 UNO/MAX, Propeller or the not yet released 32 bit Arduino.

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PostPosted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 7:40 pm 
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How about using two teensy's? :)

This is the thing I don't understand. The command within the Arduino library Pulsin() which is almost identical to the Basic Micro version if staggered in the correct method you dont need interrupts as the command exits once the pulse is either low or high depending on what signal you feed it, so if all the device is doing is reading the pulse then your fine writing code that does not need Interrupts. The only situation where you would be wasting cpu cycles on code without the use of interrupts is if you read the channels out of order, or you start the first pulsin read when channel 1 is already finished and wait till the next pass? right?

I guess that PPM encoder Alan linked above is pretty slick little circuit, and that's an idea I had a while ago. However you could change the code to output a serial string which I think would be eaysier to parse. PPM is probably a bit lighter when attempting to interpret and requiring less pins.

They almost need a method to allow the Pwm data to be read and cached within a chip A then when chip B query's chip A it provides cached results instantaneously even though the data could be slightly out dated by (500us-2.0ms*number channels) being read. Pwm to SPI?

Not sure what does this. the receiver I have does 50hz updates I think it was..

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You could convert the incoming channels to SPI, serial, I2C, whatever! If you're going to have other I2C, then that works well.

Best if the actual counter used to read pulse widths (ICR1?) needs to be done with an interrupt, you don't want to be hanging around waiting for it. That's where ServoDecode Lib does the job.

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PostPosted: Sun Oct 28, 2012 12:24 pm 
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zenta wrote:
I did some work last month on the Phoenix code to make A-Pod work for PS-2 control, the code can be downloaded from here: http://www.lynxmotion.com/images/html/build184.htm


hi zenta
I'd like to ask ...
is it possible the source code here
http://www.lynxmotion.com/images/html/build184.htm
can convert to the arduino programming language?
as in do kurte here
http://www.lynxmotion.net/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=6730

I do not have basic programming skills
but I will try to convert them.
or there may be willing to help convert that, hehehe :D

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Note: the stuff is I believe just a minor delta from our normal Phoenix code base and should not be hard to integrate Zenta's changes for the A-pod into the Arduino code base. I have not done so as I don't have one to test it on... Once Zenta has his Lyxmotion version up and running, I might make an attempt and then see if he could test it.

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PostPosted: Sun Nov 11, 2012 10:09 am 
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yup..
if my body kit done to create, I will try to step by step to convert that code base,
but I was a bit hesitant with my ability >,<


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