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So now I have the Taranis controlling the Arduino board, reading the PWM input from a servo and switching an LED. https://www.instagram.com/p/BAFLXtyBRSn/ I've decided to just use two channels for the camera to start with. Once thats working I can upgrade the program on the Arduino to handle...

My plan is to connect some outputs of my receiver to the analog input pins of a nano arduino and then read switch values. Then push this out on the serial output of the arduino via USB to the Android device as a series of commands to do the following. 1. Fire the camera :) 2. Switch mode...

Thanks so much for this I'll check it out. I may have to junk the concept and switch to another camera if this is indeed a problem. The camera also has a bluetooth interface which might be a better option but so far I can't seem to get it to work, the Wifi connection seems to come on even if I...

After a long delay (too much work) I'm back on this project in my holiday. Still mainly figuring out which parts to get. Finally decided to go with the DJI tuned propulsion 800 set as the coax power leads are claimed to reduce interference and I like the pretty lights on the ESCs. Thanks to the...

I thought it needed a bigger frame for 13" props, that means I could use the DJI 800 series propulsion. I like the look of it but thought it would not fit the standard frame. Hmm.

Yes I have considered it and thats why I'm assembling the camera part of the system and electronics first in prototype form. If it doesn't work I won't mount it up on the frame. The camera also has Bluetooth. Both work on 2.4 Ghz, both use spread spectrum of various types as does the main...

Thanks for that. Here's my block diagram of my planned components.

Thanks for your insight John. I have bought nearly all my bits now but am still deciding on the motors, escs and props. I was holding off while I decided if I wanted to build the tarot with extended arms to use the E800 motors from DJI but I discovered that the longer arm version might have more...

I guess I'd have to compensate the 'rancher', but then I get to fill my freezer. I have flown light aircraft out of Denham and Luton over the years so I have a good idea of what is at stake.

No worries, I've moved from London and am planning to fly somewhere very remote populated mainly by sheep and cattle, but I will follow the rules.

I would like to fly a high quality stills camera without paying the earth, and ideally with an aircraft that is relatively lightweight. I'm after making artistic still landscape photographs from the sky, so I don't need video. So the conundrum is that flying a full size DSLR requires a very...

Yes, I will start one. Here's a picture of the lens camera. Not the lens I would fly, or the pilot I'd choose.

I'm not sure yet, but probably via an Arduino which reads the outputs from the Rx and then translates that into something I read via USB on the stick. I can use the smallest Arduino board for that they are really tiny.

Sorry to have to correct you. The ground station (Tx) will be a FrSky Taranis and on the flyer the FrSky Tx will talk to the Android stick on the flyer. This is unfortunately required because the camera does not have a wired interface only Wifi or BT, so there will be a short connection...

What I wanted to do was use the wifi network to allow me to control the Olympus camera, so they would be collocated on the flyer. The Olycamera outputs video via wifi to the local computer which has HDMI out. So it looks like this. FRSky Rx ----<uplink telemetry channel> (to Android)...