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ESC.VTOR

Ground station deck to control (some of) them

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A bulky, yet portable, RPi4 based cyberdeck with sticks, CVBS signal chain and control tranciever.

Pronounced "escape vector".

Current aim is to make:

- Something with familiar, yet homebrew design (it's mostly about the case).

- A go-anywhere, do-anything SBC based system with Linux.

- Integrated solution for UAV control of different kinds (analog sticks, extra monitor, transmitter, receiver etc.)

- Not something entirely modular (it's hard) but would be nice to be able to swap parts for different tasks.

- Something autonomous.

- A proper excuse to dive deep into device design.

And it happens to take form a raspberry pi cyberdeck with analog sticks and dual monitor setup.

Tune in!

  • Strafe

    mkdxdx04/27/2025 at 00:52 0 comments

    It's been a while.
    The input processor firmware has been more or less shaped up, some things still need work, but at least I do not have to keep this board on my table for now.
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  • Stitch

    mkdxdx02/22/2025 at 00:14 0 comments

    It's a bit disappointing when it took a lot of time to do things but these things sort of can't be shown clearly because they are not visually significant and quite messy.

    More after the break.
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  • Sophisticate

    mkdxdx12/24/2024 at 02:34 0 comments

    Some eRr Gee Bee action to make things fresh. Everything else below the break.

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  • Sketch

    mkdxdx11/29/2024 at 19:59 0 comments

    After couple of days in EasyEDA, I've got this which is now in production.

    Parts are hopefully to arrive roughly when boards do and so assembly waits for a later day, probably next year because non-building stuff does get in the way and I'm not even sure what the blackout situation will look like in a week - lights are already off twice or thrice during the day for several hours after missile attacks on our energy infrastructure.

    Schematic mostly repeats part of Radiomaster TX16 reverse effort, check them out, plenty of info, and now after boards are on the way I kind of think I'm sleepwalking into a disaster - there is a high chance that tristate switches are not actual two switches but rather a voltage divider sampled by ADC, whereas my implementation uses a ton of switches hooked up to IO expander in a matrix fashion.

    We'll see I guess.


  • Strain

    mkdxdx11/18/2024 at 23:10 0 comments

    Some changes are cosmetic, but down under most of them - a couple of sleepless days plus some refactoring.

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  • Sever

    mkdxdx10/30/2024 at 00:01 0 comments

    If that looks like a mess - that's because it is and it's that way because it's in the middle of a panel/frame swap (and new panel is right in the center of the frame).

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  • Slow

    mkdxdx10/17/2024 at 21:25 0 comments

    I've got this nagging feeling after that last update - buttons are boring! So I'm gonna have them and something else too!
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  • Shuffle

    mkdxdx10/09/2024 at 09:44 0 comments

    Sort of a keep-alive log about trying to figure out how to build on top of what's already present.

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  • Stucture

    mkdxdx09/25/2024 at 23:24 0 comments

    ^ This is how current iteration of the deck looks if I was to make build instruction.
    Do those white pieces in the left bottom belong anywhere on the build? The answer is below.

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  • Shift

    mkdxdx09/21/2024 at 11:51 0 comments

    ELRS TX and throttle stick positions has been switched. Probably needs more adjustments for comfortable throttling action, maybe some cushioning around and symmetry is now officially ruined but i guess that's how it's gonna be from now on.


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Burnt wrote 11/19/2024 at 04:32 point

Dude this is so fucking cool!  Love what you've done, and will follow closely

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