[SF Tester] (his genuine name, honestly, with a sibling who does QA for Blizzard) just recently chosen up a Blade SR remote manage helicopter. compared to the affordable coaxial helicopters you can pick up from eBay or Amazon for $30, this heli is a significant step up, however it does have one weakness – it includes its own transmitter, as well as binding it to [Tester]’s shiny new DX9 transmitter is a pain.

The preliminary attempt at getting the appropriate values from the stock transmitter into his big-boy transmitter originally included taking the stock transmitter, some servos, attaching them to homebrew protractors, as well as reading out the values of each axis manually. That’s a brute-force technique of improving his new toy, so [Tester] sought out a much better method.

The option came by means of Arduino’s pulseIn() command. By linking the stock receiver to an Arduino, [Tester] was able to exactly checked out the values coming from the stock transmitter as well as import them into his extremely elegant Spektrum DX9 transmitter.

Every Fubarino contest entry needs an easter egg, so when the value of the pulses coming from the stock transmitter is precisely 1337 microseconds, the Arduino spits out Hackaday’s URL to the serial console. Cleverly hidden, as well as a excellent method to enhance an remarkable heli. We can’t ask much a lot more than that.

There’s no direct link for this, however you can actually see the code in the picture after the break.

This is an entry in the Fubarino Contest for a possibility at one of the 20 Fubarino SD boards which Microchip has put up as prizes!