Yup! I posted about it more in this thread: http://www.multirotorforums.com/showthread.php?22063-Sparky-Brushless-Gimbal-Controller-v2
Also a blog post about a recent frame using it here: http://buildandcrash.blogspot.com/2014/11/seeing-spark-sparky2-and-sparkybgc-quad.html
I like it since...
I thought you guys here might find this interesting:
http://buildandcrash.blogspot.com/2014/08/sparky-brushless-gimbal-controller.html
It's an update on my brushless gimbal controller using a more tradition design (satellite for sensing attitude).
and works pretty well:
The CAN...
Yup. Tau Labs is by the original OP developers and we have maintained support for CC(3D) and RevoMini. There are also other boards it supports including Quanton from Quantec and Sparky which I make (and is cheaper than a CC3D while capable of most of what revo is ;-)
For a full list of boards...
Yeah, it has definitely crossed my mind. If you look at how I designed my gimbal controller:
http://buildandcrash.blogspot.com/2013/05/sparky-brushless-gimbal-controller.htmly
you'll see that it uses CAN to communicate between the FC and BGC. The benefit of that is that it is high speed and...
There is a new version release:
https://github.com/TauLabs/TauLabs/releases/tag/20131212
Numerous features and bug fixes since the last release, including:
Horizon mode
Exponential control for rate mode
Improved battery processing
Native MavLink output
HoTT telemetry and receiver support...
/me crossing posting
Awesome video. Glad you like it! Yeah we did quite a few improvements to the flight code since the fork so I think it flies better now.
Also I think it showed me what is going on - basically when you pitch flip the roll axis is in attitude mode and when you flip upside...
Great. Yeah it helped narrow it down a lot.
Hehe, glad you like it! I'm really pleased how it came out and the single sided makes it easy to stick to things.
So I implemented something similar to horizon mode on multiwii which smoothly transitions from attitude to rate mode as you put in more stick. The results are pretty fun, and I thought some of the FPV guys here might want to try it for laughs.
OSX version
Windows version
To use it, just set...