Ground station idea for Raspberry Pi + GPS kit

11 Aug 2015

I was thinking this little kit might make an excellent ground station for my model aircraft.

I have a little 900MHz telemetry system that could be connected over serial to the Pi and I should be able to use the Pi to send commands to the UAV...

What kind of features could I add with this? Maybe a GPS based antenna tracker, or a simplified control system for changing way points?

Simple things like reporting distance to current (or last known) position would be helpful, especially in locating a crashed craft.

Some possible roadblocks:

Does the Pi have more than one serial port?

Can it handle processing high speed input from two GPS sources?

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bobalexander over 9 years ago in reply to Former Member

That's pretty good. I should be able to write up roughly the same thing for Cleanflight.
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Former Member over 9 years ago

Here is a detailled connection and operation of Rasberry Pi with Pixhawk Autopilot and Mission Planner Groud Control Software (That can do Antenna tracking Using Gps signal coming from Plane Telemetry):

Communicating with Raspberry Pi via MAVLink | Developer

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cstanton over 9 years ago

The Pi only has one directly accessible serial port on the GPIO pins, however it also has i2c. You can get GPS devices that connect via USB, which would work.

The Pi 2 should be capable of handling input from two GPS sources.
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