powerlord Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 Well, it has taken me the best part of a month, but stuDash is complete. Time mainly due to it being 20 years since I last did any electronics, so had to read up on the books and remember it all again..opamps and transistors, regulators, blablabal. Anyway, hoped to christen it with its first flight today but it was not to be, however all systems have now been tested and stuDash is go! The main design idea behind this was to simplify taking my technology into the air, and simplify cabling, taking/charging batteries for things, etc so that it is a bit more just plug in and go. But some other stuff got stuck to it as the thing evolved...! piccies here if you fancy making your own: http://powerlord.phanfare.com/album/518602 summary of features: Active Helmet,connected by single umbilical to stuDash©, and a seperate single umbilical connected to a flight deck (where archos, N95 and PDA are all attached and plugged into power alongside altimeter). All cabling to stuDash is routed through ali-pipe mounted alongside right swing arm for protection and coolness... -helmet video (using regulated 12v power feed from stuDash) -throat audio (using regulated 12v power feed from stuDash) -alternate mic (selectable with button on helmet - omni directional) -heated gloves clip into helmet umbilical maintaining the easy 1 plug hookup to stuDash. i.e. the only thing connecting me with paramotor is a single 8 way plug. everything else stays on motor most of time. StuDash features: - rev counter (tiny tach) - fuel guage (Jeremy's design) - CHT meter. - battery health meter (10 bar LED) working through 12-15v range) - detailed volt and amp readout. - heated gloves on/off switch and LED. - power on/off switch and LED (for instrumentation not PPG) - alternative video input switching (AUX1 and AUX2) - helmet to aux video input switching (HELMET and AUX) i.e. support for 3 live video feeds user selectable in flight via stuDash for inflight 'edits'. - headphones into helmet supported (can play music on N95 and is fed into headphones in helmet) - PDA gets 5v regulated power - N95 gets 5v regulated power - archos gets 5v regulated power -auxiliary flight deck 5v regulated socket (future stuff) -auxiliary flight deck 12v regulated socket (future stuff) So my flight can now be recorded with 3 (inflight selectable) video cameras (one with fish eye lense), the aux ones being mountable wherever I feel like for each flight (wireless also supported). At the same time I can use my N95 to listen to music and make/accept calls (as well as it recording my GPS track as GPS backup). PDA runs GPSDash2 giving me all the realtime readouts I need, and GPS tracking, plus since they are both powered I can have them on nice bright back light continuously. stu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dantheman Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 Powerlord, just one word - awesome So when are you hoping to sell these again ???? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huffhuff Posted December 1, 2008 Share Posted December 1, 2008 Anybody got the pics to this as link no longer valid. Tried PM'ing powerlord also but no reply. Cheers Ben Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powerlord Posted December 19, 2008 Author Share Posted December 19, 2008 Anybody got the pics to this as link no longer valid. Tried PM'ing powerlord also but no reply.Cheers Ben sorry Ben, not checked here for a while. You can see the piccies of stuDash on powerlord.smugmug.com It's still working fine. fuel guage and CHT are invaluable. Lastest video 'dashes' the video too: http://www.vimeo.com/1785489 stu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
t_andrews Posted December 19, 2008 Share Posted December 19, 2008 Stu, I'm curious about the OSD On Screen display on: http://www.vimeo.com/1785489 Did you overlay that after the fact or integrate it into the archos recording on the fly? BTW thanks for the 720p suggestion for slo-mo in your other video, I may use that one myself. Nice dashboard. Be nice to see an annotated pic to show what lights show what, toggles do what etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powerlord Posted December 22, 2008 Author Share Posted December 22, 2008 OSD is done in post-edit in Sony Vegas. I play back the recorded GPS data in GPSDash2 on the PDA, through a PC PDA remote control thing. Then I can record the 'PDA screen' through a screen capture on the PC. Then I just need to sync it up to the live video. stu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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