Comment by baddox
11 years ago
Any reason you didn't just transmit 3 normal RC PWM channels? You could do all the custom circuitry on the ground. Plug the Oculus into a microprocessor, then output to the trainer port of an RC transmitter or perhaps use one of the standard RC transmitter modules like JR or Futaba.
As I said in my top level comment, it was a project at the university. So the reason is basically that we were making a prototype the best way we could, in a way we knew we could finish in time. :)
I read your PDF. I haven't done anything along these lines, I just thought all the USB transmission and decoding sounded way more difficult than using standard RC transmission.
Well, as a programmer I knew that domain. As the saying goes, when you're a hammer.. :)
How does a weekend hobby project (and one that's been done before no-less) become a university research project?
It's not exactly a "university research" project. We're just students. It's a course where there is much focus on combining the expertise of different studies and focus on teamwork. So it's more about the process and widening your engineering focus.
And the video is made for showoff, the project in itself is about the applications of a system like this in a specific industry.
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