peabody124
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So I've been working on a small board for Tau Labs called Sparky, which I wanted to share.
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The goal was a small single sided board that was relatively easy to hand assemble. It has a gyro / accel / mag / baro and does altitude hold, position hold, rth, etc.
There is also an add-on board for it which lets it drive a brushless gimbal. I took it out on the beach today and got some (I think) pretty nice video.
Since this was sailing weather, obviously the wind was quite choppy. There is a scene in there which compares two go pros - one on the gimbal and one fixed (for FPV) so you can see how much small movement it was suppressing. Sparky (and the other Tau Labs targets) can also output a mavlink stream which can be fed into a mimimosd, which you can see above. I've also tested it on a larger gimbal from AGLHobbies with a Sony HX9V, although that needs more tuning
finally here is a set of clips trying it out on various frames (including a dual front motor tilt-rotor)
I have other notes about it over on my blog http://buildandcrash.blogspot.com/ and https://groups.google.com/d/msg/phoenixpilot/Yw-1yUFcoiE/O80P1omQKNMJ
All this filming boats has me really wanting to make a small GPS + Radio module that it can chase after. Follow me for a tablet is already supported though, but I think a module would be better if the pilot is standing on the shore during this.
View attachment 11995
The goal was a small single sided board that was relatively easy to hand assemble. It has a gyro / accel / mag / baro and does altitude hold, position hold, rth, etc.
There is also an add-on board for it which lets it drive a brushless gimbal. I took it out on the beach today and got some (I think) pretty nice video.
Since this was sailing weather, obviously the wind was quite choppy. There is a scene in there which compares two go pros - one on the gimbal and one fixed (for FPV) so you can see how much small movement it was suppressing. Sparky (and the other Tau Labs targets) can also output a mavlink stream which can be fed into a mimimosd, which you can see above. I've also tested it on a larger gimbal from AGLHobbies with a Sony HX9V, although that needs more tuning
finally here is a set of clips trying it out on various frames (including a dual front motor tilt-rotor)
I have other notes about it over on my blog http://buildandcrash.blogspot.com/ and https://groups.google.com/d/msg/phoenixpilot/Yw-1yUFcoiE/O80P1omQKNMJ
All this filming boats has me really wanting to make a small GPS + Radio module that it can chase after. Follow me for a tablet is already supported though, but I think a module would be better if the pilot is standing on the shore during this.
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