2020-02-25, 05:16 PM
(This post was last modified: 2020-02-25, 05:29 PM by seandepagnier.)
I got esp8266 communicating with pypilot for possible wireless remote.
the esp8266 doesn't have enough ram to run the pypilot scripts in micropython. A simple python script does communicate over wifi to pypilot and is working.
Rather than write the lcd rendering bit in c, I will try an esp32 and see if it can run the same python script used on the pi.
If it can, it might eventually be viable to run pypilot itself on the esp32 which would probably be ok for the basic pilots but not machine learning.
If esp32 cannot run pypilot, then maybe it can work if pypilot is precompiled to c, or eventually just use c code to at least make a working wifi remote on the esp32 in the worst case.
It might be interesting to use ultra capacitors and rectify the power to the drive motor to refresh them to power this if it is wired to the same tillerpilot buttons rather than needing a separate battery.
the esp8266 doesn't have enough ram to run the pypilot scripts in micropython. A simple python script does communicate over wifi to pypilot and is working.
Rather than write the lcd rendering bit in c, I will try an esp32 and see if it can run the same python script used on the pi.
If it can, it might eventually be viable to run pypilot itself on the esp32 which would probably be ok for the basic pilots but not machine learning.
If esp32 cannot run pypilot, then maybe it can work if pypilot is precompiled to c, or eventually just use c code to at least make a working wifi remote on the esp32 in the worst case.
It might be interesting to use ultra capacitors and rectify the power to the drive motor to refresh them to power this if it is wired to the same tillerpilot buttons rather than needing a separate battery.