SJBrit said:Frendel said:I wish this thread could come alive again with all the exciting ideas on how to modify the controls different ways. I had such a great time reading this thread tbh :geek:
I have some ideas that I'll share once I have one last piece dialed in. For now here's what I have working:
1) Gimbal: Coarse tilt on the right slider (0 to 90 deg) and fine tilt on the left slider (+/- 10 deg). I have a three way switch as a mode control. With the the switch up the right slider is disabled, the camera moves to -10 deg from level (so, almost straight) and the left slider still gives +/- 10 deg fine tilt. So, that's my "straight ahead with fine adjustment" mode. With the switch down it goes to -90 deg, right slider disabled, left on +/- 10 deg fine tilt. In the middle switch position I have full coarse control on the right slider plus the usual fine tilt on the left. Works like a charm!
2) "Cinematography" modes: I use a three way switch and the left volume knob for some yaw controls. Switch up is off - normal flight (no danger of forgetting to center the knob!). Switch in the middle is panorama - volume knob sets the speed and direction. Switch down is POV - volume knob sets the radius and direction of a POV circle. I still have a little dialing in to do on that one. I also use the right knob to dial in some forward motion - that way I can get the Phantom flying "hands free" and focus on the camera work. That is enabled and disabled by a switch too.
Will post my program when I have the POV calibrated properly. Many thanks to Ian for the inspiration and enabling me to largely avoid reading the manual!!
Real good job SJBrit! I really like concept 2, it'll be very interesting to follow the progress.
About concept 1 though, I'm not sure if I fully understand the +/- 10 deg fine tilt use. Does it work like this?
Switch up, left slider up: 0 deg tilt.
Switch up, left slider middle: -10 deg tilt.
Switch up, left slider down: -20 deg tilt.
Switch up, left slider halfway between up and middle: -5 deg tilt.
This gives me an idea. It would be cool if it was possible to do this:
- Normal function just as your normal function (Left slider: fine tilt. Right slider: 90 deg tilt.)
- then we would have one switch that turns the three way switch on or off.
- instead of +/- 10 deg fine tilt we could have +/- 15 deg fine tilt.
- The upper position of the three way switch combined with the left fine tilt slider would control 0, -15 & -30 deg.
- The middle position of the three way switch combined with the left fine tilt slider would control 30, -45 & -60 deg.
- The bottom position of the three way switch combined with the left fine tilt slider would control -60, -75 & -90 deg.
Could this be done you guys think? I haven't even gotten my radio yet so I can't try it myself.