{"id":66,"date":"2013-06-05T20:38:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T20:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ca.rstenpresser.de\/blag\/?p=66"},"modified":"2013-06-05T20:52:04","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T20:52:04","slug":"modding-a-futaba-fc18-remote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ca.rstenpresser.de\/blag\/2013\/06\/modding-a-futaba-fc18-remote\/","title":{"rendered":"Modding a Futaba FC18-Remote"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-66 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail gallery1'><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n\/\/ <![CDATA[\r\n\tjQuery(document).ready(function () {\r\n\t\tjQuery(\".gallery1 a\").attr(\"rel\",\"gallery1\");\t\r\n\t\tjQuery('a[rel=\"gallery1\"]').colorbox({maxWidth:\"95%\", maxHeight:\"95%\",title: function(){ return jQuery(this).children().attr(\"alt\"); }, });\r\n\t});\r\n\/\/ ]]>\r\n<\/script>\n<figure class=\"gallery-item\">\n<div class=\"gallery-icon\">\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ca.rstenpresser.de\/wp-files\/2013\/06\/IMG_1036.small_.jpg\" title=\"Futaba FC-18 Remote\" rel=\"gallery1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ca.rstenpresser.de\/wp-files\/2013\/06\/IMG_1036.small_-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" alt=\"Futaba FC-18 Remote\" \/><\/a>\r\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"gallery-caption\" id=\"caption67\"><span class=\"imagecaption\">Futaba FC-18 Remote<\/span><br \/>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class=\"gallery-item\">\n<div class=\"gallery-icon\">\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ca.rstenpresser.de\/wp-files\/2013\/06\/IMG_1039.small_.jpg\" title=\"\" rel=\"gallery1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ca.rstenpresser.de\/wp-files\/2013\/06\/IMG_1039.small_-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\r\n<\/div><\/figure><figure class=\"gallery-item\">\n<div class=\"gallery-icon\">\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ca.rstenpresser.de\/wp-files\/2013\/06\/IMG_1046.small_.jpg\" title=\"\" rel=\"gallery1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ca.rstenpresser.de\/wp-files\/2013\/06\/IMG_1046.small_-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\r\n<\/div><\/figure>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Today i finished the modification of my remote \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Its an old Futaba FC18v3. I still had that one left from my first experiences with model aircrafts 15 years ago. I hate throwing stuff away, so I bought some new bits to make it usable again.<\/p>\n<p>Now it features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Powered with a 3C-Lipo (not shown in the pictures)<\/li>\n<li>Blue Backlight LC-Display<\/li>\n<li>FrSky DHT Transmitter module<\/li>\n<li>Bluetooth interface for FrSky telemetry<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The complete setup draws about 150mA @9V (with all modules powered on). That will make it run more than 10hours with a 1800mAh LiPo.<\/p>\n<p>The Bluetooth and LCD module were both ordered from Ebay, the FrSky stuff from Hobbyking.<\/p>\n<p>The installation of the different parts was pretty straightforward.\u00c2\u00a0 I removed the old 40Mhz-PPM-Transmitter and soldered the 3 wires for the new 2.4Ghz module. The old antenna was removed, also i moved the CAMPAC module in order to use that space for the additional LED-and-pushbutton-PCB of the trasmitter module. The Bluetooth module only has 4 pins, GND,+5V,Rx,Tx which i all hooked up to the FrSky. Since the FrSky-Pins are RS232, i modded the module to output TTL-Signals by accessing the UART directly. Unfortunately i didn document that, but you can find several images on google how to do that.<\/p>\n<p>Changing the LCD-Module also was quite easy. Its a standart HD44780 module with a 14Pin connector. Some of the pins are not used because the FC18 runs the display in 4bit-mode. Basically i just removed the old module and soldered the wires 1:1 to the new one. Then i added two wires for the backlight which also runs of 5V.<\/p>\n<p>The last part was setting up data display on my smartphone. Fortunately some other people already took care of that. I just installed <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=biz.onomato.frskydash&amp;hl=de\" target=\"_blank\">FrSky Dashboard<\/a>. Done \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today i finished the modification of my remote \ud83d\ude42 Its an old Futaba FC18v3. I still had that one left from my first experiences with model aircrafts 15 years ago. I hate throwing stuff away, so I bought some new bits to make it usable again. Now it features: Powered with a 3C-Lipo (not shown &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ca.rstenpresser.de\/blag\/2013\/06\/modding-a-futaba-fc18-remote\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Modding a Futaba FC18-Remote<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[26,28,24,25,14,23,27,29,31,30,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ca.rstenpresser.de\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ca.rstenpresser.de\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ca.rstenpresser.de\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ca.rstenpresser.de\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ca.rstenpresser.de\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ca.rstenpresser.de\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78,"href":"https:\/\/ca.rstenpresser.de\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ca.rstenpresser.de\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ca.rstenpresser.de\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ca.rstenpresser.de\/blag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}