0 RC Control of Canon Cameras

If you've got a CHDK-enabled camera, here's a nice instructable that shows how to control it with an RC radio. It uses an Arduino Pro Mini to interface between the receiver and the camera USB.

Chris A. chimed in in the comment section noting that this functionality is now built into the APM software, and that there is a MAVLink command to trigger the camera shutter.

I have to say, even though as a practical matter I would use the APM to control this, it's interesting seeing the more bare-bones approach in this instructable.

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0 Thursday Miscellanea

Some nice airbrush tutorials on RCGroups.  Be sure and look at the first three posts.  More here.  And a store-bought checkerboard stencil.

Cheap GPS hackery here. Very interesting, and it can save on some projects.  Ebay searchage for "U-blox PCI-5S" and "GPS Ceramic Internal Patch 1575.42MHz Antenna 20x20x7mm" about $15 combined!

Servo City has some nice pin crimpers.

Arduino Power Management here.  Using the JeeLib to access the Atmel low level sleep functionality.

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0 S107g helicopter control via Arduino

Here's an interesting article by Andrew J. Barry that talks about controlling the ubiquitous Syma heli with an IR LED connected to an Arduino.  Source code included to fly by keyboard!  More discussion at RCGroups.

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0 Processing/Arduino Serial Communications

The Touche for Arduino project has a nice module for talking between Processing and Arduino over a serial connection. Code is on github.

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