Hello everyone,
for a school project we need to create a rc plane with arduino. I followed the tutorial on RC Plane Transmitter Receiver Arduino Part 1 of 2 - Arduino Projects and Robotics Tutorial. However, I don't understand how to wire everything up as in the video.
Can anyone please help me, and my mates, who don't understand a lot about arduino and programming.
Thank you very much in advance!
Hello Lapsapper,
Welcome to the forum.
In order to get help with your project here you need to show signs that you have tried yourself and got stuck. At the moment, the way you are asking comes across as 'I don't have a clue about this, please do it for me'. No one here is going to do it for you.
Please read 'how to use this forum - please read' (the clue is in the title). Please try out the various examples on the IDE and elsewhere and come back when you can show us what you have tried and ask for help with specific problems relating to things you are trying to do and are having problems with.
lapsapper:
Hello everyone,for a school project we need to create a rc plane with arduino. I followed the tutorial on RC Plane Transmitter Receiver Arduino Part 1 of 2 - RootSaid. However, I don't understand how to wire everything up as in the video.
Can anyone please help me, and my mates, who don't understand a lot about arduino and programming.
Thank you very much in advance!
Another school that dumps projects on students without training them in necessary skills first.
How many days before the deadline?
The system in the tutorial has a lot of different elements.
If I were going to tackle a project like this, I would want to break it down into smaller, testable parts.
Your transmitter needs to be able to read the joysticks. Write a sketch that simple does that. Have it print the readings to the serial monitor. Confirm that you get expected results. Helpful hint, it lets you discover the min and max values that your particular joysticks generate, which is useful when selecting arguments for the MAP() function later.
Your receiver needs to be able to tak to servos and your ESC (as if it were a servo). Write a sketch to do just that. Hint, if you are going to run your motor with a prop on it, make sure that it is firmly attached to something solid and that the area around the prop is free.
Your transmitter and receiver need to be able to use the serial communication. Transmit the joystick values from your transmitter, and have you receiver simply print them to the serial monitor.
Finally, change your receiver sketch to sent the commands to the servos rather than the serial monitor.
Try it out. Let us know how it goes. If you run into a problem along the way, ask away!
Oh, and pictures. I love to see pictures of projects like these. Post some of your work along the way and of the final project.
Hi there,
Please describe as you can what kind of airplane, dimensions as well how you plan
to control it with a RC controller or a homemade one?
Building an airplane is not hard but info is required in your case:
If you have the components/materials you can make one under 2,3 weeks depends if you work alone or team project.
If you don't have materials I suppose you need to order them or buy local/online which will take 1,2 months if you live far away from china 
Best Regards,
D60
Hello everyone, thanks for replying.
So the project we are going to create is a rc plane using a parafoil and using a propellor we create thrust in order for our plane to get high. With the use of servo’s we want to steer the parafoil, by attaching the outer ropes to the servos. The plane is roughly about 15 cm long and 7 cm wide. The rc plane will take of on the top of a high building, so that the plane doesn’t require multiple electro motors to gain enough thrust to take off.
The tutorial we have found on the rootsaid.com combines all the following components we need. That’s why we've tried to follow the tutorial, but unfortunately this this isn’t really suited for beginners. The first things we’ve tried is to calibrate the ESC and the antenne module HC 12, but we failed to find a good tutorial for a beginner as well. Next to that we’ve tried out the joystick modules, and both of them worked as expected. So basically we came to a full stop when we couldn’t setup the ESC and the HC 12.
We also have some other questions relating to the rc plane:
Does an rc plane require wings that actually work or are they just for decoration?
In the tutorial the following is said: “I used analog pins A0, A1, A5 and A7 to get the analog reading of the joysticks.” We needed to attach these to VRx and VRy to the following ports, does it matter which one goes in which. Because that hasn’t been stated clearly in the text. Also, do we need to use the SW for anything?
How do we have to calibrate the HC-12 to a frequency of 433,4 MHz 437,0 MHz?
How do we have to wire the brushless motor and the servo motors to the Arduino Nano?
Thanks in advance!
Team Lapsap
lapsapper:
Hello everyone,for a school project we need to create a rc plane with arduino. I followed the tutorial on RC Plane Transmitter Receiver Arduino Part 1 of 2 - RootSaid. However, I don't understand how to wire everything up as in the video.
Can anyone please help me, and my mates, who don't understand a lot about arduino and programming.
Thank you very much in advance!
There are a series of videos (listed below) where this bloke tries to build a quad cheaply as possible.
If you have the time to go through the series, there is a lot of good information in there and I'm certain you will gain something from it.
You can look at the sketches to see what pins go where:
Transmitter inputs:
Elevator: A0
Rudder: A1
Throttle: A7
Ailerons (flaps on wing to tilt left/right): A5 (not used by receiver)
Receiver outputs:
Elevator (up/down flaps on the tail): Servo on Pin 9
Rudder (left/right flap on the tail): Servo on Pin 11
Throttle: ESC on Pin 10
lapsapper:
Hello everyone,for a school project we need to create a rc plane with arduino. I followed the tutorial on RC Plane Transmitter Receiver Arduino Part 1 of 2 - RootSaid. However, I don't understand how to wire everything up as in the video.
Can anyone please help me, and my mates, who don't understand a lot about arduino and programming.
Thank you very much in advance!
BTW, if you get to those videos I linked to, it will show that the joysticks in those module boards for Arduino are crap.
Basically have dead spots that will have you chasing your tail looking for why things are not working correctly.