Friday, March 14, 2014

Turnigy 9X Based FPV Base Station

For the drone I needed a base station. I need it not only for FPV, but I also need to be able to use the APM Mission planner to assign and monitor the status of the drone. This base station here I have made on top of the 9X 6ch RC Transmitter allows me to do just that, as the monitor can take 2 sources and switch between them. This means that I could add a Raspberry Pi or preferably a more powerful ARM device. (An extremely low power X86 board would be amazing, but I'm not betting on it.)

The FPV station is a relatively simple concept. You take a monitor  and then add some video equipment of your preference (900mhz in my case), some batteries and you're almost good. More to be added...