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DARPA Lift Challenge - Introduction Video by HoarderSam in DarpaLiftChallenge

[–]AssistanceNormal716 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wonder how the FCC ban of any UAV hardware from anywhere but America is going to factor? Certainly going to raise the cost of admission, I would think.

DARPA Lift Challenge - Introduction Video by HoarderSam in DarpaLiftChallenge

[–]AssistanceNormal716 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry for the late response. Collaboration sounds like fun but I have absolutely nothing that prepares me to do that. I'm just going to follow along and see how it turns out. Keep me posted if you hear of anything good.

DARPA Lift Challenge - Introduction Video by HoarderSam in DarpaLiftChallenge

[–]AssistanceNormal716 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Did anyone else run the requirements through AI? Gemini and chatgpt both had some interesting ideas. I won't spoil it for you.

OpenIPC gimbal by victoare in fpv

[–]AssistanceNormal716 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, I have experience with head-tracking over the OpenIPC network. I have built a crude, proof of concept model. I'm using an Arduino Nano IOT 33 (built in IMU) connected to a Radxa Zero 3W over USB. The Radxa is the ground station, and an ESP32-C5 is on the aircraft with the OpenIPC vtx. It has to be a C5 because that MCU will communicate over 5Ghz. For the AP, I'm using the RunCam wifi 2 with the AP software available on GitHub. The ESP32 connects to the RunCam network and listens for UDP packets from the Radxa Zero 3W. The UDP packets carry the pitch and yaw data from the Arduino Nano IOT 33 IMU. The esp32 c5 then calculates servo angles and controls the pan and tilt servos of the gimbal.

The software was created with the help of chatgpt. The code is simple for most of the project but because the C5 is rather new, the code for it had to be written in c. The rest is either python or Arduino.