Sounds like you should get started again. What was the GPS chip and how did you get it to control the servos? I can do electronics and I have some PIC programming experience.
Now that I'm thinking about it, I didn't have the luxury of Google Earth when I did this project so that would be useful for gathering your coordinates before placing them in your programme.
I bought a gps card that is designed to be plugged into a laptop/pc and I designed my own interface for it so that I could plug it into my plane instead.
My computer programme kept running a subroutine that checked the current location of the plane and comparing it with where it wanted to go. When it got there, or more correctly due to inherent inaccuracy, when it got near the location it wanted to be at, it turned.
some landing
hashybumbum93 1 week ago
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hashybumbum93 1 week ago
Sent you a message the other day. Sometimes I have messages in my inbox for weeks before I check.
Just letting you know.
VivaLaPol 3 years ago
Sounds like you should get started again. What was the GPS chip and how did you get it to control the servos? I can do electronics and I have some PIC programming experience.
BINKIE2000 3 years ago
Using a map, I could basically draw a box and pick the coordinates of the four corners and then use these numbers as turning points for my plane.
Use as many turning points as you want and you could cover as much area as you need.
I had big plans for it, gyros, location recognition software, etc. Heres to the best laid plans of mic and men.
I suggest getting in touch with the Electronic Engineering guys as I used to be one of them.
Good luck.
VivaLaPol 3 years ago
Now that I'm thinking about it, I didn't have the luxury of Google Earth when I did this project so that would be useful for gathering your coordinates before placing them in your programme.
VivaLaPol 3 years ago
I tried something similar myself not to long ago.
I bought a gps card that is designed to be plugged into a laptop/pc and I designed my own interface for it so that I could plug it into my plane instead.
My computer programme kept running a subroutine that checked the current location of the plane and comparing it with where it wanted to go. When it got there, or more correctly due to inherent inaccuracy, when it got near the location it wanted to be at, it turned.
VivaLaPol 3 years ago
How did you record that?
Lynnch1 3 years ago
Cameras on a model aircraft.
BINKIE2000 3 years ago
*boggle* I'm dizzy now.
I was kinda wishing there was sound. I wanted to hear the squeal of your little pilot as it careened into the ground. Great landing though!
banoffipudding 3 years ago