Hello guys! I am pursuing a project on quadcopter QAV 250 from Banggood and Flysky T6 transmitter. I wanted to have an adequate practice before flying my FPV and thus I would like to know,Can I connect arduino to receiver and use my transmitter to play the realflight 7 with it without simulation cable.???
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Hello guys! I am pursuing a project on quadcopter QAV 250 from Banggood and Flysky T6 transmitter. I wanted to have an adequate practice before flying my FPV and thus I would like to know,Can I connect arduino to receiver and use my transmitter to play the realflight 7 with it without simulation cable.???
This is possible but not trivial.
I did this once with a Spektrum transmitter and receiver. I had the microcontroller read the receiver's signals and the microcontroller then generated the signal normally produced by the transmitter's trainer output.
I sent this generated trainer signal to the RealFlight controller's trainer input connector. I watched the trainer output on my transmitter with an oscilloscope (I might have also used a logic analyzer) and then bit banged the same signal using the microcontroller.
I haven't done this sort of thing with an Arduino yet but I have used the Arduino to read rc signals from a receiver. Lots of the example code to read RC signals misses lots of the pulse. Pulsein is probably the easiest way to read RC signals but it's also the worst as far as missing pulses.
Here's some code to read RC signals. It only reads three channels but it should be easy to expand it to read additional channels.
The trainer output wasn't very hard to duplicate. It was basically all the other channels compressed over time.
I think flight simulators are great. I wish I had one when I was trying to learn to fly a helicopter 35 years ago. There are other options when it comes to learning to fly a quadcopter. There are lots of inexpensive quadcopters/hexacopters which fly great. These little 'copters survive crashes great.
I just received this hexacopter today. It's a blast to fly. It's a really fun way of practicing flying.
If the above link doesn't work, just search the site for "JJRC H20 6Axis RC Quadcopter".