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Guillaume S edited this page Mar 4, 2014 · 22 revisions

#Ghettostation The ultimate antenna tracker for opensourced uav projects

Features

  • Support Arduino Mega 2560 or Teensy++2 boards ( Teensy only have one serial, softserial is used for osd output. Mega already have many hardware uart available )
  • Handle protocols from most opensource flightcontroller:
    • UAVTalk: OpenPilot; Taulabs
    • MAVLink: Arducopter, Arduplane, PixHawk, Autoquad
    • MSP: Multiwii, Baseflight
  • Internal Protocol optimized for really low baudrate links ( works well with 1200 bauds ) LightTelemetry (LTM) send enough data for a full ground osd or gcs software.

Supported in Taulabs & Baseflight fork from my github repo:

  • Taulabs : ltmenabled branch activate ltm modules by default for all boards. LTM is also merged in official Taulabs tree. You need to enable it for your board before compiling.

  • Baseflight (naze32) : use LTelemetry branch

  • [Compiled binaries](https://docs.google.com/folderview?id=0B3Tguk9Y4xCaRHNaMWozLXFNYnM&usp=docslist_api. : Taulabs & Baseflight builds with LTM enabled

  • Antenna Tracker:

    Handles different types of pan/tilt configuration:

    * 360° Pan | 90° Tilt
    * 180° Pan | 180° Tilt
    * any other custom configuration 
    

    Warning: Do not work with continuous servo. You need normal r/c servos.

  • Easy configuration trough LCD menu

  • 4 bank of settings to handle different kind of antenna mounts, or telemetry/baudrate settings.

  • 4 different ways of configuring home heading reference:

    • calculation from home pos & uav pos. Put your uav 20m away straight to your antenna.
    • manually enter the heading reference (use your smartphone compass)
    • use compass from the uav. Point your it to the same direction as antenna.
    • use internal HMC5883 compass reading
  • Ground based On Screen Display (GhettOSD) Add your Minimosd hardware to the Ghettostation, load it with GhettOSD, and do not care of wiring an osd on all your r/c stuff anymore.

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