Comment by Rebelgecko
1 day ago
Once upon a time I worked on a project where we SSH'd into a satellite for debugging and updates via your standard electronics hobbiest-tier 915mhz radio. Performance was not great but it worked and was cheap.
1 day ago
Once upon a time I worked on a project where we SSH'd into a satellite for debugging and updates via your standard electronics hobbiest-tier 915mhz radio. Performance was not great but it worked and was cheap.
This is still done today in the Arducopter community over similar radio links.
I haven't heard much about the ArduCopter (and ArduPilot) projects for a decade, are those projects still at it? I used to run a quadroter I made myself a while back until I crashed it in a tree and decided to find cheaper hobbies...
They're alive and well and producing some pretty impressive software.
Crashing your drone is a learning experience ;)
Remote NSH over Mavlink is interesting, your drone is flying and you are talking to the controller in real time. Just don't type 'reboot'!
Well at least crashing drones into trees has never been cheaper hahaha. So it's super easy to get into nowadays, especially if it's just to play around with flight systems instead of going for pure performance.
ELRS?
Nope this predated ELRS by a bit. I wasn't super involved with the RF stuff so not sure if we rolled our own or used an existing framework
You can run ELRS on 900 MHz but the bitrate is atrocious.