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This year I have to do another nice project. It’s a robot that has to fulfill a job together with another robot from a partner team. More details in some weeks (photos and videos).

The project is part of my education at the NTB in Buchs. We are a team of 8 people and I am a member of the programming team (and some support in electronics). During the last weeks, the mechanic team did a great job and the prorgamming team had enough time to do funny experiments with our mikrocontroller.

One of the funny things was that we connected the Wii Mote to the PC and then the PC to the mikrocontroller. All this was done by bluetooth – so no cables – and that’s really nice.

Here is a nice video clip of the LabView Software in action:

vimeo - Link: WiiMote and LabView

In some weeks I’ll post a “full action movie”. But first the mechnical and electronic parts have to be assembled fully.

Thanks to my team at the NTB! It’s great to work together with such a highly motivated team.

Hi out there.

In the last days i tested the new version of DUBwise (Digital UFO Broadcasting with intelligent service equipment – coded by LiGi). The Kopter is connected via Bluetooth to the mobile device. In my case this was a Sony Ericsson W810i.

The actual Version has the possibility to adjust all Settings (like the MK-Tool) and nice features are the Graph indicator and the Cockpit which displays a virtual horizont.

It’s a amazing tool and supports a lot of mobile devices. Ligi is also updating and patching all night long to be in sync with the latest released Software from the Mikrokopter project itself (FlightCtrl, NaviCtrl)

The tool is also able to talk and tell you how full the Lipo is (Voltage). Other nice informations are the number of satellites, height over ground, heading, distance to home position and so on…

To see how the tool looks in action here is a short clip:

vimeo - Link: Mikrokopter with DUBwise

Details about the project you can find at  http://www.mikrokopter.de/ucwiki/en/DUBwise or http://www.ligi.de

Update 14.04.2009: Because some guys asked me how to install the application on their mobile phone, here is an instruction. For the installation you can use the “Installer” from LiGi (http://ligi-tec.blogspot.com/2009/03/dubwise-installer.html).
If you have no internet connection, the installer shows you which file you have to install for your specific device. The sources and binaries you can find here: http://svn.mikrokopter.de/mikrowebsvn/listing.php?repname=Projects&path=%2FDUBwise%2Ftags%2Fv0.52%2Fmisc%2F#_DUBwise_tags_v0.52_misc_

Yeah – I finally had an evening “free” or “spare” time. So i used the time to mount my new FLEX-lander from the Mikrokopter shop. Also I am now a proud owner of a MK-USB. It’s so sweet to have the power supply of the Flight-Ctrl direct in your programming interface.

Additionally i “reactivated” my bluetooth device and added a BT-AP10 to the BT-Module. Now everything looks clean and smooth – and – I’m able to test LiGi’s very cool DubWise again! I’ll try to make some screenshots or a video next week (Yes, I can’t believe it, I’m “on holiday” next week)

The weather gets better and better, snow has gone and the “freezy fingers” from flying in winter are also history. The new Mikrokopter season has started (For the most Mikrokopter freaks in the form it never ended)

Additionally my NaviCtrl got a Micro-SD card with 2Gig capacity for recording flight tracks and telemetry.

Here are some photos of my current Mikrokopter status:

Greetings,
Speedy