ATmega328 PPM Encoder Board

Thanks to Chris we have a way to use virtually any RC receiver with Paparazzi without any modifications to the receiver.

This board plugs into the servo output ports on a R/C receiver and encodes them into a single PPM pulse suitable for the paparazzi autopilot. It is also possible to remap channels by changing the connection between the receiver and the encoder. Want Tx ch5 to be output on ch7 of the ppm stream? Just connect the Ch5 signal from the receiver to the Ch7 input on the encoder.

Programming the PPM encoder

Programming the board can easily be accomplished using an AVR ISP (in-serial programming) programmer. These are inexpensive and can be found many places online. Once you have the ISP connected to the PPM encoder, simply use avrdude with the following command:

avrdude -p atmega168 -P <Insert port here> -c <Insert ISP type here> -U lfuse:w:0b00100010:m -U efuse:w:0b111:m -U flash:w:servo2ppm+bootloader.hex

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Source files

• Link to firmware file: [PPM Encoder Eagle and latest (4.3 Feb 2010) firmware (zip)]

Gerber & Drill files

• download "PPM Encoder Eagle design files 4.3(zip)"
• download PPM Encoder gerber & drill files (zip)
• download "PPM Encoder manual (PDF)"