kiwironnie
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The idea here is to develop a device to 'flight' control a swimmer via haptic feedback.
This is to solve a problem that it can be very difficult to keep on track to a distant target, such as a point on an opposite shoreline across a tidal inlet.
Freestyle swimming is pretty much blind and I've found myself swimming in circles. To have to keep looking up spoils the rhythm and the fun.
Therefore looking to develop a simple GPS/gyro system that buzzes 2 little vibrators spaced apart on the swimmer's back, which will indicate which direction to turn.
Although I design electronics as a job my knowledge of flight controllers is almost zero!
So looking for practical advice on the best controller to buy and firmware to modify.
The controller I guess should figure out a compass bearing to a (the next) target waypoint via gps then try to keep the swimmer on track by buzzing left or right, whilst resetting the bearing via GPS at intervals. Or a similar scheme.
It needs to be reasonably easy to configure the waypoints on a map ready for each swim.
The battery can be contained on the safety float that is often used for open water swimming, with a power wire fitted along its tether.
Advice on the smallest, low cost controller (with gps, gyro and / or magnetometer) would be greatly appreciated, together with a suitable software stack that I can modify.
Cheers
Ron
This is to solve a problem that it can be very difficult to keep on track to a distant target, such as a point on an opposite shoreline across a tidal inlet.
Freestyle swimming is pretty much blind and I've found myself swimming in circles. To have to keep looking up spoils the rhythm and the fun.
Therefore looking to develop a simple GPS/gyro system that buzzes 2 little vibrators spaced apart on the swimmer's back, which will indicate which direction to turn.
Although I design electronics as a job my knowledge of flight controllers is almost zero!
So looking for practical advice on the best controller to buy and firmware to modify.
The controller I guess should figure out a compass bearing to a (the next) target waypoint via gps then try to keep the swimmer on track by buzzing left or right, whilst resetting the bearing via GPS at intervals. Or a similar scheme.
It needs to be reasonably easy to configure the waypoints on a map ready for each swim.
The battery can be contained on the safety float that is often used for open water swimming, with a power wire fitted along its tether.
Advice on the smallest, low cost controller (with gps, gyro and / or magnetometer) would be greatly appreciated, together with a suitable software stack that I can modify.
Cheers
Ron
