You can also wrap the dongle into heat shrink to make it safe from accidental shorting of the electronics. My soldered receiver to the Arduino board:Īttached it to the back of the arduino board with dual side adhesive tape:

Actually the first time you power the Arduino with a RC simulator dongle firmware it triggers the calibration automatically so I’ve never needed this swich so far. Calibration switch can be used for triggering the transmitter sticks/switches calibration. There is also an alternative Calibration Swith, connecting GND and A1 pin on the Arduino board. The connection schematics is very simple, If you will use a receiver with PPM output, then you’ll only need to connect PPM out on receiver to D4 on Arduino board, +5 to VCC and GND to GND: Both them have clearly detailed instructions about installing in the README.md file of the each project.įor your convenience, you can download all the three packages from here: Schematics Make sure these are installed properly before compiling, otherwise it will instantly fail. My slightly modyfied Arduino project source code for RC simulator Dongle can be downloaded from here: Ĭompiling requires Arduino IDE v1.8.2 at least and 2 external libraries: I had a problem with my computer (64bit Windows 8 and Windows 10) not detecting arduino as HID Joystick, so I have modyfied the source to make the dongle work. Although it should compile fine on other '32U4' boards also (eg.

Project was intended for Sparkfun Pro Micro board, cause it is based on ATmega 32U4 which can act as a game controller on USB. The code is written by GregNau and original project is on GitHUB. You can choose the cheap and small receiver from Flysky receivers list and from Frsky receivers list. Including Arduino Leonardo.Īctual parts costed $ 3.40 for Arduino Micro Pro board and $6.99 for iRangeX Flysky receiver. Actually almost any Arduino board with Atmega32u4 should work. Arduino Pro Micro can be purchased from Sparkfun, but there are a lot cheaper cloned boards on Ebay, Aliexpress or Amazon (Possible compatible boards:, ). But you can easily do it by yourself! List of partsĮverything you will need is Arduino Pro Micro board and any Flysky, Frsky or any other RC receiver compatible with your transmitter. Ever wanted to have wireless simulator dongle? Unfortunately there are no such dongle to buy anywhere.

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