Anyone here interested in helping beta test some Bluetooth control boards? I’ve sent out a couple and will have a few more in about a week. I’m looking for some constructive feedback.
You can get the apps now on Google Play. There are four so far and I’m working on a couple more. Opinions, suggestions and bug reports would be greatly appreciated.
Just to recap- this board talks to an Android Smart Phone or Tablet via Bluetooth and can drive three standard R/C servos (or an electronic speed controller). It also outputs a DCC stream and has two digital on/off outputs. You can use it with the servos, put an ESC on it for battery power and use the DCC output to drive a decoder- or some combination of those if you wish. DCC functions include the extended throttle packet, function codes 0-28 and CV programming. Servo 0 is always the throttle output and tracks what is sent out via DCC.
For experimenters, I can provide a list of the accepted command messages if you want to talk to it with say, a raspberry pi or something like that instead of the Android app.
Here is a pic of the final board design:
Thanks,
Martin