Thread: model aircraft software
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2010-05-23 , 08:29
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Originally Posted by Jophish View Post
Are you by any chance a Linux user? The hardware is there, somebody will patch support together eventually.
Among other things, I use OSX mainly and Linux (+OpenSolaris) on the side. There is some developments in open GSM basestation space but there is all kinds of regulatory issues so wifi is the realistic option.

Originally Posted by gazza_d View Post
What about using something like a Nokia 6230 (nuron in the USA) which is a very cheap (£80) nokia touchscreen phone running symbian 5th edition. It has GPS, accelerometr, and ready made software with sports tracker.
Symbian development is pain (if we still have the goal of sending telemetrics back instead of using it as flight recorder).

Anyways for flight recorder there are lighter packages actually designed for that use.

Anyway it would be significantly lighter to use some embedded computer board with gps and wifi (or maybe just a simple serial radio link), gumstix makes those but they're a bit pricey... I have for playing around an TelIT GSM+GPS module that has bunch of GPIO pins so adding accelometers would not be an issue (though it has only GPRS, no wifi) the nice thing about the TelIT is that it runs python code (v2.2 and no floating point and some other embedded environment constraints make it slihtly painfull regardless)