Hi!
Newbie...
Looking for software to run;
-a small transmitter with a joystick and a Nano (or Arduino Uno),
-a receiver with Arduino Uno, two stepper motors 28BYJ-48 with drivers.
The range should be at least 200m.
The application is planned to steer (pan and tilt) a camera with tele lens mounted on a tripod. The image from the camera (Canon 5D) is transferred with WiFi to my ASUS pad and it is working well. With all this I can take pictures and shoot video on distance and, by doing so, coming closer the animals.
So, anyone have the software to pan and tilt the camera on distance with a joystick? Links or mail?
Standard RC control system is well adapted to driving servos, perhaps if you have the steppers controlled
from the result of a call to pulseIn(), it could interface directly to an RC receiver? With two pins you'd
simply call pulseIn() alternately on the pins. The transmitter could just be a standard cheap RC controller...
Thanks Mark
Well, my first thought was RC servos and a simple RC transmitter/receiver. However the power needed to handle the camera (4-5kg) make a need for a very big servo. It take space and the servos I checked are not locked in position when out of servosignal. One other reason is to go for Arduino is the fact I am trying to learn it and this could be a good project to do so.
At present I have made the mechanical solution that include a 28BYJ-48 Unipolar Stepper with ULN2003 and a worm gear for the vertical movement and another 28BYJ-48 for the horisontal movement, The transmission and receiver is carried out by 2pcs NRF24L01+PA+LNA SMA Antenna Wireless Transceiver communication module 2.4G. An analog joystick give the X and Y directions and speed.
I am looking for code examples to put this together. Due to the mechanics solution the steppers need to run in fastest possible mode (how to do this in the programming?)
Happy to receive some tips.