rx – Guilherme Martins

NightRider – update d

About the controller, I want it to have something we see in the drone industry, a controller with the screen, all-in-one. There is always the option to connect the receiver to the TV, but I really want it to be standalone, independent of power wallets, just something that I can carry anywhere I go.

First step was to find a way to hold the screen to the remote, so I added zip ties to the back of the screen.

I also added a compartment to hold the receiver, battery and wires (collecting acrylic stuff is a good habit I guess)

Not bad..

The back side is still messy, but I will live with it for now.

and it just works..

NightRider

Back to the Origins

Has been a long time since my last robot project.

Recently everything related to FPV, Drones, and Robots in general have been occupying my mind. I wanted to create an FPV Terrestrial Drone experience to anyone without the need of having (in portugal we say “kit the unhas”, “nails kit”) skills to pilot an aerial drone.

This little project reminds me those times when I have time and patience, to build small robotic creatures just because the fun of it, I guess I’m getting very nostalgic with this one.

The Turnigy controller works just fine, and to get the sticks values I am using the very well documented code from Sparkfun Nick Poole
https://www.sparkfun.com/tutorials/348
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And this is the controller with the screen. There is still missing the video receiver and the battery.

More to come ;]