APPLE IPOD look RC Transmitter

[lazy-b]

APPLE IPOD is so popular today......I just wonder if anyone have ever contructed an APPLE IPOD LOOK RC transmitter.....I guess its Do-able......with a nice Color LCD display and a Click Wheel.

here is my wishlist:
1. Joystick that do not use a potentiometer, maybe optical or Magnet sensor.
2. Transmitter with a Built-in Camera, so that you can fly with taking a video of our plane
3. Built-in Video Player, MP3 player.
4. Built-in 2.4 GHZ Receiver to Received on-board video/Telemetry data from your plane.

I guess, option 2,3 and 4 came done easily, Just buy a Portable Media Player and 2.4GB Receiver.

I hope somebody can hacked the new IPOD Video or this Portable Media Player.

Ellion

[lazy-b]

Guys: Saw some guys able to hacked an Ipod Mini, loaded it with Linus OS.

I guess, its now possible to make a RC Transmitter control by Ipod.

http://ipod.hackaday.com/

my idea is to use IPOD/POCKET PC or any PC or even another PIC controller act as a DUMP TERMINAL, just need 3 wire interface to RC Transmitter, Just like the way we control external modem/Cellphone using "AT" command set......with Standard AT command set, you can use any computer to program the RC transmitter.

if we could only request Mr. Gordon Anderson, just to add a serial port on his MSTAR2000 Transmitter.......and make a Standard "AT" command set on how to control the parameter of the RC transmitter.

this is his website:
http://www.mstar2k.com/

I guess, we could now make a Universal RC Transmitter....with Unlimited Language.....Unlimited Capabilities....Its just a matter of Software.

[tino_j]

I guess i'ts all possible (these days), just takes money and someone to do the actual programming...

[Mick Molloy]

MZ14... even plays MP3's

[sp1nm0nkey]

1. Joystick that do not use a potentiometer, maybe optical or Magnet sensor.

Yeah, that'd be pretty cool. There's a company in australia that makes a chip that's essentially a ring of hall sensors. Extremely accurate, but still not quite as accurate as a good pot and ADC.

2. Transmitter with a Built-in Camera, so that you can fly with taking a video of our plane

Why? It'd be so hard to hold up the transmitter to track the plane.

3. Built-in Video Player, MP3 player.

Why would you want to watch video while you're flying?! Is flying not good enough?

4. Built-in 2.4 GHZ Receiver to Received on-board video/Telemetry data from your plane.

How would you find out what your aircraft is trying to tell you? Look down at your transmitter while your plane flies off into the wild blue yonder?