Using IR HeliAutoPilot to decode Helicopter's IR Protocol

[djdavies83]

Wow so you wrote the program that's running this hardware, what is it written in?

Other hardware, could it be done to work with simple headphone jack outout? maybe the ir donlge for the iPhone i-helicopter. say someone capture the code into file and share it.

A bit higher up in the thread there is talk of bolting two S026 helicopter together to make a quad, one PCB on channel A and the other on channel B, throttle is the same for both but the pitch of heli B would be roll or aileron

[amieres123]

@djdavies83 The PC program is written in C#.

The USB IR Toy is written in low level C Language.

I suppose it could be adapted to work through the headphone jack. I understand that to use the headphone jack the frequencies are somehow split between Left and Right but that's about all I know on the subject. I would need to do some research to be able to program it.

But first I would need to build me one of those IR dongles.

[amieres123]

@djdavies83 I included a new version of the software that outputs the signal through the headphone jack. It has the source code in case you want to tweak it and a schematic of the circuit that you need to use it.

[amieres123]

@djdavies83

I created a Blog that explains the technology. Check it out.

[djdavies83]

Wow, I love it, just came here from your post in RCG, so tempted to get the hardware

[amieres123]

@djdavies83 Thanks, for subscribing.

I'm planing to publish the source code. Maybe it can be adapted to other hardware.