Black Stork System or similar for RC car

[ziggy12345]

Hi

I was wondering. Could I use the Black Stork system to get an RC car to travel in a dead straight line for say 2-3 miles?

Cheers

[bignose13]

Yep, but the video quality is nothing to do with the blackstork though

[ziggy12345]

I dont want any video. I just need to have the car travel in a dead straight line without any input. I saw this also

http://www.dragonlabs.net/site/DragonOSDplus

Can I program the system to do things at different waypoints? Cut engine, Apply brakes, Deploy chute... etc...?

Thanks

[bignose13]

forget the blackstork then
Its just got an arrow to show home
Never used dragon stuff so cant comment but think you need something with waypoints feature
Can I ask what you intend doing?? might give us some idea and better advice for you

[Brucey]

How about an apm2.5

[ziggy12345]

I want to run a speed car across either a frozen lake or a salt/mud flat. Radio range and line of sight has always been a problem so I thought if the thing went in a straight line on its own then I don't have to worry about either. It needs to deploy a chute at a given waypoint.

Cheers

[rickydale]

APM 2.5 is the way to go for that, its all ardu so should be quite easy. It can take photo's at a given point no reason it cant deploy a shute

[ziggy12345]

Whats Ardu? Is it a programming language? How would I learn this? Have you got a link to any examples?

Cheers

[CurryKitten]

Whats Ardu? Is it a programming language? How would I learn this? Have you got a link to any examples?

Cheers

Ardu is being used as a short form for Arduino, which is the name of a series of programmable boards that are very popular with tinkering people.  The website is http://arduino.cc/ Arduino has it's own programming language, asnd you can download the IDE onto you computer, hook up the Arduino via USB and send programs to it very easily.

The APM is essentially an arduino already packaged up and connected to a bunch of sensors with the code already written for you.  I haven't seen it running, but there is an "ArduRover" version of the software specifically for controlling car-type vehicles, and with this you'd be able to program waypoints, tell it how fast to go etc.  There shouldn't be any extra programming to do, unless you want to explicitly customise some part of it

[ziggy12345]

Ok I found this

http://rover.ardupilot.com/

Looks like thats what I'm after. I wonder what its like at high speeds?

Thanks