Lot's of tiny things

Little exciting progress. But here is what happened so far.

• I got indoor GPS Fix.
• I can bind both Spektrum satellites.
• I have severe Telemetry problems. The modules often don't sync up.
• And I hooked up a lighting system to my model. Looks very flashy, literally.

RC Experience

Today I flew my shitty trainer aircraft for some rc practice.
Crashed quickly after the second flight of course. But it is recoverable.
But I'm afraid the same can't be said for the speedcontroller. It lost its magic smoke.
The one I bought was too small for this engine, and when the prop stalled at the crash it must have had enough.
It nearly split the little FET in half. :)
More simulator flights from now on I suppose.

GPS Pinout

I just got a response from csgshop about the pinout of the MAX-5Q GPS Eval board.

VCC is 5V and logic level is 3.3V

[Edit] UBLOX MAX-6Q of course. Not MAX-5Q

Simulator flying

I finally accepted the necessity to do some simulator flying before I do the real thing™.

I choose CCRCsim and a Esky Hobby RC Simulator from a colleague.
I'm very pleased with the results. I think this will help avoid some very costly flight errors.
CCRCsim is opensource and runs under Linux, OSX and Windows.

The graphics are not modern gaming standard, but pretty frickin amazing actually

Fiat Lux

I will be sharing progress for my Paparazzi UAV project here.

I will be flying a hobbyking Bixler with Lisa/m 2.0 and 2.4Ghz Xbee telemetry.