I want MY drones.

[ElEctric_EyE]

I WANT: RF transmission/reception. I have it in LINX modules.
I WANT: Motion sensors.
I WANT: Audio to be recorded, when motion sensors triggered. Instantaneous transmission, coded.
I WANT: Video snapshots.
I WANT: 6502 controlled system to be assured 'system' is working according to MY spec's, at all times.
I WANT: The Master to tell me within 1000' of my home, on my way home from work, how many triggers there were, with the option to receive recorded data.
I WANT: To know how many 'drones'. In order to know which ones are mine, and which ones are the enemies.
I WANT: A rechargeable battery power supply, with trickle charger solar panel for probes/drones.
I WANT: The option for self destruct, but we won't go there.

[Dajgoro]

[Nightmaretony]

1. Lee and Garth and Daryl have I2C and PS2 and other comm circuits for your perusal and enjoyment. Use them, know them, love them.
2. Sparkfun and dangerous prototypes have tiny such additions that use the protocols listed above.
3. Repeat. Wash. rinse.

[Dajgoro]

Hmm...
Just the other day i was thinking how i could build a remote controlled vehicle using a Raspberry PI, assuming i get my hands on one. Wifi would be a good way to control it, and stream audio and video.
A 6502 or 1802 co processor could be useful since it has only 8 gpio pins, and as a watchdog if the os crashes...

[ElEctric_EyE]

Dajgoro wrote:

I know. I was in rare form at time of the post. Wrong presentation, and I apologize for the confusion. But my ideas are still there and I plan experimenting on a side project soon.

Nightmaretony wrote:

1. Lee and Garth and Daryl have I2C and PS2 and other comm circuits for your perusal and enjoyment. Use them, know them, love them.
2. Sparkfun and dangerous prototypes have tiny such additions that use the protocols listed above.
3. Repeat. Wash. rinse.

For my drones, with the motion sensors and audio recorders/transmitters receivers, I would like to have the QFP WDC65C02 in control. EEPROMs are too big. I will need to experiment with serial loading from FLASH to SRAM on startup. These other sensors, especially the video from Sparkfun are reasonable.

[Dajgoro]

ElEctric_EyE wrote:

Dajgoro wrote:

I know. I was in rare form at time of the post. Wrong presentation, and I apologize for the confusion. But my ideas are still there and I plan experimenting on a side project soon.

Haha, looool

Kinda weird we got struck with similar ideas at the same time, well last week i was browsing ebay, when i found some camera modules, and then i was thinking how could i read them with a 6502, and the only solution is to use programmable logic to do the work. And then i remembered a forgotten project from high school, where i made a copper chassis with 4 dc motors and my netbook on top. The idea was to be a wireless controlled vehicle, and it kinda worked, it was just that the wheels were taken from some toys and they didn't fit right, so they kept falling of, and the laptop was too heavy, so it wouldn't move until i pushed it... The project got scrapped, but i still have the dc motors, and the control circuit. So i thought how could i take that camera module and a wifi module, and fit it all together, but doing it all with a 6502 and cpld-s to handle the enormous video stream is kinda hard.
Anyway i was curious about that camera module, and i am still, so i started the "Camera module control logic" topic, but nobody replied...
The better way to make it work is to get a R-Pi and add a 6502 for controlling the motors, sensors, R-Pi watchdog, and an auxiliary radio link, in case it goes out of the wifi range, while the radio link is much slower, it would be cool if it could still stream pictures, but one at the time...
I also had this idea that if i get to build it, i could put it in a box and ship it to somebody and explore that person's town/surrounding...
But i won't get any R-Pies soon...

Edit: About rare forms, my fried was in a rare form the other day, when he was trying to convince me that we should start manufacturing industrial cnc machines and sell them...

[Dajgoro]

What do you plan to do with them anyway?

[ElEctric_EyE]

Dajgoro wrote:

What do you plan to do with them anyway?

Deploy them. But they must be resistant to the effects of outside weather conditions. All seasons. They must be able to be charged by a small solar cell...
This is the LINX receiver module I have my eye on. Each 'drone' module will have a RF transmitter as well as a receiver to control transmitter frequency and other options, as real time situations demand.

[Dajgoro]

ElEctric_EyE wrote:

Dajgoro wrote:

What do you plan to do with them anyway?

Deploy them. But they must be resistant to the effects of outside weather conditions. All seasons. They must be able to be charged by a small solar cell...
This is the LINX receiver module I have my eye on. Each 'drone' module will have a RF transmitter as well as a receiver to control transmitter frequency and other options, as real time situations demand.

But what do they do, what real time situations will they have to handle?

[ElEctric_EyE]

Mainly audio, but they can go up to 56kbps for digital up to 1000feet.

[Dajgoro]

You mean they are for spying your neighbors?

[ElEctric_EyE]

No not spying, just making sure my own perimeter is secure. If I was going to spy, I'd use a laser listening device, which is one thing my probe should be able to detect, if someone were using such a device on my house. A regular camera module should be able to see an infrared beam, at night at least. A snapshot an hr at random times after dark might be a good scheme.

All this may seem paranoid to the extreme, but it's more of just an experiment. There are really nice pieces of electronics out there... I really wouldn't care if someone was spying on me though.

[Dajgoro]

Will the 6502 be the main cpu in the drones, or something more powerful?