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| APRS Map on 2.2" TFT |
While reading the chapter on Marinus: An APRS Display from the Ham Radio for Arduino & Picaxe by Leigh L. Klotz, Jr, WA5ZNU. I decide to give it a try over the weekend.
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| Ham Radio for Arduino & PICAXE |
Initially it sounded complicated but after looking into my inventory ( Arduino, TFT display, SD card and APRS modem ), I have ALL the similar items needed to do this project.
I replaced the Arduino UNO with a DigiX , an enhanced Arduino DUE with Wifi, SD card, nRF and many more pins. The reason for this was for both mcu power, flash & memory storage and operating voltage of 3.3V as most of the TFT out there runs on 3.3V.
The next, I replaced the Adafruit display shield with a bigger and commonly used 2.2" TFT / ILI9341 (320x240) that runs on SPI. The Arduino forum here have lots of info on this display. This display runs on 3.3V only. As I have gotten this 2.2" TFT working on Adafruit GFX library before, it is just a matter of hooking up the pins correctly.
The SD card slot was built-in to the DigiX on pin 87 as Chip Select (CS). Nice...
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| MicroAPRS modem |
The last piece, instead of Argent Radio Shield, I'm using an Open Source version of Arduino MicroAPRS modem by markqvist from unsigned.io. The above is a picture of the MicroAPRS modem board I made on DIY PCB.
For the library, DB1NTO modified the ArgentRadioShield library for the MicroAPRS for decoding the normal and compressed packets functions.
All the main codes remains the same as I just modified the TFT & ArgentRadioShield library only.
The image below are the whole system, DigiX with SD card, 2.2" TFT display, 5V to 3.3V from the MicroAPRS modem to the Serial3 of DigiX.
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| Marinus on DigiX / MicroAPRS |
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| OSM 7x7 map tiles |
With everything setup, I put everything inside a plastic box and go for a ride. Below are some of the pictures and decoded callsigns on the maps.
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| APRS Map decoding my 9W2SVT-8 packets |
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| APRS Map inside a plastic box |
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| 9W2SVT-8 |
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| 9W2RUT-2 |
Summary hardware :-
- DigiX with SD Card http://digistump.com/products/50
- 2.2" TFT ILI9341 320x240 ( search on ebay.com )
- MicroAPRS modem from markqvist
Special thanks Leigh L. Klotz, Jr, WA5ZNU for the great article and his assistance to get everything up and running. Markqvist for the MicroAPRS modem and Taner DB1NTO for the modified MicroAPRS library to support for packet decoding for normal and compressed packets.
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