Been pretty busy last week, but I decided to play with the accelerometer module and made this Altitude indicator. I hope someone will find this useful.
Parts used:
LilyGO T-Display AMOLED Touch : www.lilygo.cc/O9VrA9
LIS3DSH high-performance three-axis "nano" accelerometer
CODE: github.com/VolosR/altitudeInd...
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Nice project. One little problem. The artificial horizon - Y axis is good but the X axis (roll) is reversed. the horizon should stay horizontal. Roll on 100K !
Tnx, i can see now. I never used nothing similar so i made that mistake.
Hmmm, Only if you're used to Russian aircraft. The artificial horizon is different between Soviet Era and Western Aircraft. The cause of at least one airbus crash by Russian pilots.
@@VolosProjects Ignore that comment, you are correct for western aircraft.
Was instantly gonna comment this. Lol
@@brianroberts5062 - In Soviet-era planes, the horizon indicator was constant, only the plane icon tilted. (However, all target indicators always showed the west direction) - a joke ;).
Technically that's an attitude meter :) love it none the less :) If you add a pressure sensor (bme280) you could also call it an altitude meter
That covers what I was going to say
And add a compass module and it become a useful project
Actually, it is an Attitude Indicator (AI) 😉
Beautiful as always. With a slightly different graphic you can use that to indicate inclination in 4x4 vehicles.
If you use a temperature, pressure and humidity module, you can also have altitude reading added to the altimeter in the top right. The airspeed indicator (the gauge on the bottom left) should be on the top left. If you google "aircraft instruments six pack" you will see the standard setup of instruments. Sorry, couldn't help it, I am a pilot. ;) I hope you don't mind. Love your channel, I see that you like to play with Lillygo T-Display S3 a lot. I can't make mine work for anything. Pozdrav iz Washingtona!
Great. I made such a board with ESP32 and an accelerator, I hold it in my hands and ...... I fly around the room, I'm going to school with it on Monday! ;). Regards!
You have a gift to make beautiful UI design for such small devices. Good bless you for sharing the knowledge 👌🏼
Always impressed with your interfaces! Very nice! It got me thinking about similar applications that could be integrated with GPS for sailing - like measuring and recording angle of heel vs speed and leeway. Also thanks for introducing that accelerometer module! I will definitely be picking up one (or more) of those!
80K Subs! Very Well deserved! Excellent and very helpful content!
Excellent job and beautiful results as always. Your channel is one of the best.
Your projects are always the coolest 👍
Love it - cant wait to see what you make with the legos. Still need to get back to troubleshooting my black screen lilygo s3s. Congrats on the 80,000 subscribers - great milestone - and on to 100K!
Hello, did you fallow my tutorial how to set arduino ide and libraries?
Another great project! I always look forward to your videos.
It's rotating the wroing way though :-) Artificial horizon's stay horizontal, that's kind of the point. I *am* going to build this though, it's an excellent project for students who want gamification.
I knew I would make a mistake somewhere :)
I was about to point out the same thing, but vinny beat me to it. I’m sure it’s a simple fix. Very nice looking tho!! In real flight, this is used to tell the pilot the orientation of the horizon in situations where they may not be able to see the real horizon.
It seems a bit wrong... when you turn left, the artificial horizont "turns right"(in fact it must be aligned with the horizond, because it is the plane that turns-roll/bank). Yours turn in the same direction of the "bank angle"/roll angle. That is good you are not a aviation instruments provider. But the thing is cool.
Awesome! I want one for my car so I can pretend that I’m flying when I’m just driving.
Hahah i will stole that idea.
@@VolosProjects A future display project might have to be a G-force display. ;) Looks like yoyo on string and grows longer when there is more turning force. Typically seen in race cars on a track, as too much G-force can cause tires to loose grip in a turn.
Great one. I wanted something like this since I got my first car, It has a fake keyless start button and this was best thing to fit into it, but I didn't know how to code it, this seems good one. With a round display, it fits nicely. Thanks.
Nice work 👏🏾 If nothing else,it would make a fancy DIY levelling device 👍🏾🤓
Thanks! I love this videos of Indicators
Marvelous Volos, I've been working on the same for a couple months now and was able to do everything but the Attitude indicator that consists of three parts , the outer stationary bezel , the middle ring for bank angle, and inter ball for pitch and bank. Problem is getting three layer to show with the stationary layer being the last.
Beautiful UI as usual. I'll have to take a look at accelerometer code...
Thank u I was looking for this for years
Tus proyectos son siempre increíbles... 😍🥰
Keep on going.. good videos..and big thank you for your effort.
Legendo, svaka ti cast na znanju koje imas skidam kapu. Gledam tvoje klipove i neverujem koliko su dobri. Ja se ubih celu noc da povezem dva NRF24l01 modula da komuniciraju al bez uspeha jos uvek,pravim za klnca neki auto na daljinski. Nemam reci stvarno svaka ti cast!!!🍻
hvala, ja isto pratim tvoj kanal, vidim da se dosta razumijes u Fliper zero, razmisljam da si nabavim jedan, ali i dalje mi nije jasno za što bi ga koristio. mozda ti se javim ako budes imao vremana da malo popricamo o tome, preko maila ili slično.
Very nice design again. 😍👍
That's great! You can add an altimeter and a variometer to this project, or add a BMP388 sensor to the project.
This is a good video as always. I've been waiting to see when the new one comes out :) Could you perhaps make a good-looking video where you use a timer? For a countdown. Everywhere they just show clocks, but nowhere do they show the countdown. Thank you for your work.
Yes ofc, what board you had in mind?
@@VolosProjects It doesn't matter which board, I bought many types from Lilygo because of your videos. I suppose the regular S3 is what most people have. I'm interested in how to do a countdown, such that meanwhile, for example, a bar decreases or a circle diminishes, etc. I guess many could make use of this sort of thing, whether in the kitchen while baking or for other types of timers, for example, when the expiration time is approaching, then a LED turns on and when it expires, a piezo, etc. What I wrote, unfortunately, sometimes slows down the process and doesn't measure the time accurately, of course, it might be because in the meantime, based on your code, it also displays the time from the internet...
The RC fixed wing fpv planes and jets will thank you also
Awesome! I plan to make one and use it for my Quicksilver MX Ultralight aircraft, just for fun!
then you'd better get the roll axis right
This is sooo cool! Will have to look up and get the sensor. Adding a GPS to the mix to have a directional arrow showing you the path and maybe an overlay of controlled airspace would be a cherry on top of the cake or at least per second logging of altitude and coordinates in a log file would be a killer. If I may point out that you need to invert your logic on left and right banks. You have it inverted. Left bank would put your left wing in a dirt if that makes sense. Do you think esp32 could handle some basic maps?
I saw this and thought that was be awesome as a Inclinometer for an off road vehicle. Looks better then anyone if have seen. Furthermore this got me thinking you could make a very cool instrument cluster I subscribed to lean more, I have a 2008 Jeep Wrangler and would love to update some instrument and add some I don't have.
This is awesome. It's not called altitude indicator it's called an attitude indicator. Altitude related to height and attitude relates to position to the horizon. I'll definitely be using this.
Nice, I have done an attitude indicator using an AHRS and its a lot more basic - in an actual aircraft you cannot use accelerometers for pitch and roll. When an aircraft banks at any angle, a pendulum would always point direct to the floor, because you are turning in a circle when you bank and thus the forces cancel (unless you are flying out of balance). Similarly for acceleration and deceleration, if you use an accelerometer you would think you were tilting back for acceleration and forward for deceleration. And that is because gravity isn't a force its an acceleration. An AHRS fuses data from gyros with accelerometers as well as magnetic flux to maintain its place in space - which is tricky. Luckly you can buy one that does all of that and gives you the figures and you just draw them.
I love this project! Made me think of another idea you might be able to contribute to. I'm thinking of an absolute altimeter, that is, one that shows the height above the ground rather than the height above sea level. I bought you a coffee so you can think about this one ( - : Most people have heard the "50... 40... 30" feet above the runway callouts heard in passenger liners. That is good, but what can the pilots look at that shows this information? I've tried to design something for Makerfab's 1.3" touch screen but I'm not very good at screen design. You, on the other hand are quite the expert! So since you say these type of projects boost your viewer count maybe you can think of something for a future project. Thanks for everything you do.
Thank you I've been looking for some graphics code like this!
That's interesting. I'd love a tilt sensor for my motorcycle with a say 30 second memory of max tilt, and perhaps a visual indication of current tilt as well. Maybe I could combine it with speed and flash the screen red as driving becomes questionable. Thank you for sharing.
I confirm @chipko suggestion it's an attitude indicator or an artificial horizon indicator. Nice and useful tutorial thanks a lot. 🛩
A little bit of tech is very fun 😊 nice project it has potential.
Very Cool Project 😊
Thank you, this is what you need, I like it!
Well done Volos ;)
Great coding example as always
Thanks for a great video !!
What a great project! Your script could be a good approach for implementing a special idea of mine. As a passionate motorcyclist, I would like to have a curve counter😃 Exceeding a certain lean angle over a slightly longer period of time should be counted as a left or right curve. Unfortunately, I miss your talent in designing a beautiful user interface😄 But still, thank you for sharing your great projects with us.
@volos Well done on your 80K subs ! I don't have an AMOLED ttgo yet. Is it possible to run this on a T-Display Lilygo S3 or the previous one T-Display ? Just interested in the attitude indicator only. Very nicely done Video. Thanks !
Yes it is posible, but it will need aditional work, scaling that to smaller size
Very inspiring as always ! I would be very curious of a project involving USB communication. Sending the accelerometer data throught WebSerial or WebUSB or WebHID. There is a lot of sample showing WebServer, very few involving WebSocket or MQTT and none with USB.
Nice, thank you!
Another of your absolutely fantastic gauge examples. How involved would it be to have it run on a std. espi_tft supported display ? Just the Gauge TFT & Accelerometer
Another beautiful project (you have excellent UI skills !). Which dev env do you use ? Im having trouble getting these recent projects to compile. For several years I have used the PC Arduino IDE application for older ESPs. There are now options for web IDE and PlatformIO. I have bought several of these newer devices you have shown us (LilyGo should pay you a commision :-) ) and for all of them I have failed to get the correct libraries installed into the IDE and worse can no longer build my legacy code. I feel I need to start from scratch or have alternate IDEs and be able to configure different library locations ? I understand the board manager and location of libraries but it seems the specifics of lvgl paths for different boards can interfere with each other. Appreciate your suggestion.
I use only Arduino Ide, it is not best ide but is easiest to setup. You can try to install evrything from start. Yes , dealing with diferent boards can make mess. Just install esp32 boards in arduino Ide, version lower than 3.0 and then you can install libraries in libraries folder by hand, and dont update them.
Try not to install the library in the IDE but simply copy the .cpp and .h files into your project folder, then replace < > with “ “ in the #include…
Good Job 👍
You reminded me of a 3-axis sensor I bought half a year ago, but it kept reporting I2C errors, so I put it aside for half a year.
This is neat.
That would be cool to put in a fpv rc plane. If you could figure out how to make that function with rc plane electronics you could probly sell it for a decent price. Someone else sells something similar for $400 but isn't nearly as nice. If you could get real time sensors to display altitude, air speed and attitude it would be perfect. Or get it to communicate with fpv flight controller via uart or sbus or other rc plane protocols
It's magic! Great
thanks you, your project help me for making gauge in my car
Glad to hear that, tnx😀
To all the Pilots that want to use this: Don't ! You will need actual airspeed and rate of turn to get the bank angle correct. Otherwise it will level out when you are in a normal turn. Likewise, but to a lesser extent for pitch angle. This because the sensors are just accelerometers / gravity sensors vs true gryo's so they are good detecting movement. In a steady turn / pitch (1G) they will null out.
I don't think it was meant to be taken seriously! Really is just a fun project...but appreciate your expertise on this subject!
@@user-px4zg3lk3qFor sure! Just mentioned as many have tried to make something like this only to see it fail when used in actual flight.
@davepompea thats cool , 😎 good point
Excelentes videos, consideró el uso del Kalman Filter para suavizar la visual?
very nice
LOL! Great intro!
Very nice
Very nice, Volos! But the middle 'meter' is in fact called 'Attitude Indicator'. It's the behavor of the plane.
Great project with many possibilities. I now have the display and sensor and have downloaded your code to my laptop. The only thing missing is that connector that connects the sensor to the Lilygo board. Was yours included with your board? All I got was a connector for the battery. What's the name of this style connector? I'd like to order this piece to finish copying your project.
At the very least, it's "pretty", and a great idea to turn accelerometer data into a "useful" display!
lol i like this channel, also, as others say, i think left right bank is backward. i would use this on my plane
Very nice. Wonder if you it could be used to compensate for roll in a compass
Very Cool. Do you have a video how the graphics are made and downloaded to the ESP?
This could be cool on a motorcycle!
Great project again, based on this, maybe you can make a version for leveling a caravan or motorhome?
As a paramotor pilot I see a use, maybe with baro for pressure and altitude and even analogue input for engine temp and digital rpm capture. Data logging would also be cool.
Tnx for advices, i wish i have more expirience with this . It seems i made many mistakes. But it seems is not to bad.
What you're describing already exists as freeware. It's called Ardupilot and can run on a $30 STM32f405 board (look up Omnibus F4). It has GPS input and will even add autopilot functionality to the A/C. I used one in my Long EZ for logging.
Nice! Can you do something with a GPS antenna module that shows what direction you are going?
Just an ideia for next project. A magic eye tunning indicator with vfd look I mean the glow.
Great video, but what board do you select in the IDE? and can your code be used for just the non touch AMOLED?
ESP32S3 Dev Module, code can work with non touch version but with few modifications.
Nice project! I have a question on TFT_eSPI, in my project if I use more sprites or bigger ones some of these is not drawn on the scree even if i ave enough free memory. Do you have some tips for me ? I think I'm not the only one. Thanks for your wonderful project, i learned a lot from your work.
hello, sorry for late answer, sprite need lots of memory, so largest sprite s3 can handle is 400x400, you can use few smalers, or you can push same sprite on diferent plasec on screen, it is hard to explain, so basicly you draw content of sprite and push it to lef corner, next you draw another content and push it to anoother corner, FPS will suffer but do you realy need 30 fps. i used that aproach in this video kzhead.info/sun/Z5Gwgaehp3eOZ3k/bejne.htmlsi=jE0_cF-hEGaH1VV9
@VolosProjects thank for your answer. I use several different sprites. I will try to reuse the same sprite for different icons. Thx again
Makes me wonder build one to my bike dash.. just for fun
Super ti je UI (kao i inace)
Hvala :)
Looks great, but: Why using a touch display when no touch function is used? I own the T-Display without Touch and cannot compile the programm. I assume it takes hours to change the program accordingly. Apart from that: great work.
nice
Hi nice video. Sugestion: more espnow please. combine with lego technic for controll the motors.
It would be nice to be able to switch back and forth with the 5 different features for center screen
as he stated... the other "features" are just pictures and have no function
Hi...I would like to try this project, may I know how to start with it. I have the boards but not sure how to start with the code. Please guide me what need to be done. Thank you for your attention and help.
You're a prolific coder. I doubt I could do that in 10 days even if I did nothing else.
Thank you, it is all practice.
that needs GUNNNS
If you think gauges get you more views, wait till you find out what feet pics will do 😂 nice work man that's cool
I love your videos! Is it possible if you can make pano tuner with clock on it? I like to personally request the project! please let me know!
Thank you, belive me i tried to make guitar turner but i fail, i can find any good tutorial or ic which can do that.
Sorry Sir, but your display is a horizon indicator, called an "artificial horizon", and is used to determine the hotizontality of an aircraft in space. Altitude is the measure of a flying object's height above sea level
it doesn't even do that correctly at this point
Do you have any playlist from where I can learn this .... Graphic on LCD displays
He has many great tutorials about the display and sprites on his channel. Amazing content
You do amazing graphics. Your attitude indicator has inverse reference, left wing down should show left wing lower in reference to the horizon. Another use case for this in off road vehicles would be an inclinometer (tilt and angle). Thanks for your hard work bringing these displays and code examples!
Be cool in my brother's boat!
The artificial horizon sensor interpretation is made the wrong way, up and down seems correct but left and right is wrong.
Yes, but, is it bath safe, for us true man-child toy aficionados? 🤓 this things awesome 🔥
How sensitive is it ? Perhaps it can be used in a jeep to check angles, or use on an RV to check the level.
Sensor is fast , but updating screen is not that fast so maybe it will be to slow whole fast driving in jeep.
@@VolosProjects not fast driving, just for rock climbing and RV parking so the tent/bed are level.
What libraries does the code require? When I try to compile it I get an error about a missing drivers \ temp_sensors.h file.
In code you can see adafruit libraries that are used, you can download them and it will wor then. Did you manage run my last example for this board?
@@VolosProjects Thank you very much for replying and showing us how to use this board! I did loaded the Adafruit Sensor & LIS3DH but the attempt to compile still lists the temp_sensor.h file as missing. I don't know which library that error is talking about to load it as there are so many others also listed when I search. Could you let me know which lib has the temperature sensor file? I have not tried your other examples but I will. Many thanks!
@@opjose Thank you , but belive me this is not firs example you want to try on this board, also project will not work if you dont have LIS3DH sensor.. can you please try my first project from this videe, you will need to use right libraries , i explained which ones in this video kzhead.info/sun/isWqYtyBZKZvZ3A/bejne.html you will need to go to this rep and coppy all libraries from here in your libraries folder github.com/Xinyuan-LilyGO/LilyGo-AMOLED-Series/tree/master/libdeps
you are right, lilygo updated libraries and i used old ones, i updated my code please download and try new version.
@@VolosProjects Thank you again. However when I try to compile the new code I get the same issue: * @file LilyGo_AMOLED.h Arduino Programs\PlaneTDisplayAmoled\LilyGo_AMOLED.h:30:10: fatal error: driver/temp_sensor.h: No such file or directory #include ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ compilation terminated. exit status 1 Compilation error: driver/temp_sensor.h: No such file or directory I do have the libraries installed.
Where did you find that, I saw your code but I would like Know more to understand, did you Understand?
Where did i find that? I dont understand!
@@VolosProjects Yes, I would like to know more about the code.
Damn! I want one! Crank out a bunch of those and get booth at EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh! lol Nice job as always.
I have not been able to find a tablet since the HTC Jetstream that has a REAL compass so that I can use Google sky map... With that tablet, if I attached it to a telescope, the tablet could tell me what star the scope was pointed at... If you could find a tilt sensor that has a true compass in it and somehow make my non-compass tablet think it has a compass, I could use google sky map again.
Will you be adding a video explaining the connections and the code? I am getting so many errors.
hello, do you have same board and sensor, did you install all libraries?
Big problem now is at line 427 error 'init' is not a member of 'TouchDrvCSTXXX'
I have not yet connected the LIS3DH 3-axis Accelerometer. Could that be the problem. I was just wanting to test that the code would install.
I am unable to find TouchDrvCSTXXX in your github or anywhere on the web. By the way. I have the development board.
Thank you , but belive me this is not firs example you want to try on this board, also project will not work if you dont have LIS3DH sensor.. can you please try my first project from this videe, you will need to use right libraries , i explained which ones in this video kzhead.info/sun/isWqYtyBZKZvZ3A/bejne.html you will need to go to this rep and coppy all libraries from here in your libraries folder github.com/Xinyuan-LilyGO/LilyGo-AMOLED-Series/tree/master/libdeps
How do you flash the code to the device? Thx
with software caled Arduino IDE.
I just noticed, your board is different than what is available on LILYGO. Yours does not have the two buttons and mine does not have connectors that are on yours. ????? I looked at the lite version, has the buttons and the connectors. ????
Mine is touch version. You bought versiin without touch.
sorry to bother you, but I have attempted to solve this for 3 days. I keep getting the following error message:#if ESP_IDF_VERSION < ESP_IDF_VERSION_VAL(5,0,0) #include #else #include #endif temp_sensor.h cannot be found. I have searched all of the libraries, to no avail. I wanted to check ESP_IDF version, but cannot that file. ???? Never mind. I give up. Too many deprecated libraries. I discovered what ESP_IDF is and cannot resolve that issue.
you need to go to board manager in arduino IDE and downgrade your esp32 boards definitions to lower version than 3.0,
Not useful for me BUT very interesting and I'll probably make one just for interest !!!!
You are right... More meters and displays please. I don't play games.