Wireless Buddy Box by 2icrc

by E. Valente
(MD - USA)

XPO Co-op Pilot aka Wireless Buddy Box by 2icrc.com

Hi,

I would like to invite you to check out my website and the product I created. It would be great if the kind of technology I created was mentioned in your website as another way to learn and develop skill within the RC Hobby and even fly FPV!

There is another website similar to yours that is highly informative and the creator of that website posted some info about me.

http://www.rc-airplane-world.com/rc-airplane-training-methods.html

I was hoping I could have the same kind of mention in your website as well. You are free to use any information, description or pictures from my website. Also, at my website there are links to several reviews of my product.

Please let me know if you would like to add me to your website so I can create links from my website to yours.

Please feel free to ask me any questions, also, your thoughts and comments are much appreciated.

Best Regards,
Evandro Valente

www.2icrc.com
admin@2icrc.com

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Mar 08, 2010

XPO Co-op Pilot - FPV App
by: Evandro Valente

The XPO is a device that allows two receivers to be flown on-board. Having two RXs means there are two TXs on the ground. The master pilot uses a dedicated channel to trigger the XPO to allow the commands from the secondary RX to reach the servos. Otherwise, the XPO allows the servos to only "listen" to the primary RX.

So the most immediate application is as a learning tool as a "Wireless Buddy Box". It is "Wireless" in the sense that the two TXs are NOT connected to each other. The absence of the wire connection between the two TXs is a liberating feature of the product. So much so that Futaba has created their Wireless Trainer System that does that and ONLY that, do away with the wire.
As far as FPV, there are several very interesting applications here. The pilots can be very far away from each other. All that is necessary is that the two control "bubbles" coincide slightly. What do I mean? I can fly to the limit of my vision and only then give control to the secondary pilot. The idea is that as I fly away from my visual, I am flying towards my partner. Furthermore, if he/she is flying only FPV, he/she can be located in a place more convenient/strategic for the "mission" that we have.

The XPO can also be wired up in many different ways, perhaps the best FPV solution with the XPO is to have the FPV pilot have camera control on the left hand while the right hand does the flying. Other channels (throttle and rudder) can be re-wired to dials on the FPV TX. I created a video showing this setup. More setups can be achieved as well. Videos showing the setup described above are both posted on my website and on youtube.

Visit www.2icrc.com
or
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1RG3wuSQTo

for more on FPV details. Let me know if there are even more specifics that you want to know and from now on I will focus on just single specific answers. Despite all of what I have written, there are still several applications that I haven't talked about in more detail....such as redundancy, new competitions previously not possible, partial control sharing, UAV apps (artificial/human piloting) and usage in other vehicles (helis, cars, boats), etc.

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Mar 08, 2010
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The XPO is a device that allows two receivers to be flown on-board. Having two RXs means there are two TXs on the ground. The master pilot uses a dedicated channel to trigger the XPO to allow the commands from the secondary RX to reach the servos. Otherwise, the XPO allows the servos to only "listen" to the primary RX. So the most immediate application is as a learning tool as a "Wireless Buddy Box". It is "Wireless" in the sense that the two TXs are NOT connected to each other. The absence of the wire connection between the two TXs is a liberating feature of the product. So much so that Futaba has created their Wireless Trainer System that does that and ONLY that, do away with the wire. As far as FPV, there are several very interesting applications here. The pilots can be very far away from each other. All that is necessary is that the two control "bubbles" coincide slightly. What do I mean? I can fly to the limit of my vision and only then give control to the secondary pilot. The idea is that as I fly away from my visual, I am flying towards my partner. Furthermore, if he/she is flying only FPV, he/she can be located in a place more convenient/strategic for the "mission" that we have. The XPO can also be wired up in many different ways, perhaps the best FPV solution with the XPO is to have the FPV pilot have camera control on the left hand while the right hand does the flying. Other channels (throttle and rudder) can be re-wired to dials on the FPV TX. I created a video showing this setup. More setups can be achieved as well. Videos showing the setup described above are both posted on my website and on youtube. Visit www.2icrc.com or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1RG3wuSQTo for more on FPV details. Let me know if there are even more specifics that you want to know and from now on I will focus on just single specific answers. Despite all of what I have written, there are still several applications that I haven't talked about in more detail....such as redundancy, new competitions previously not possible, partial control sharing, UAV apps (artificial/human piloting) and usage in other vehicles (helis, cars, boats), etc.

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Mar 07, 2010

Can you give more details of what this contraption is?
by: Matt

If it's not a wireless buddy box, can you explain in more detail what it is and what it does?

Can you give some examples of how it's used besides being a wireless buddy box? You mentioned FPV, can you explain how this is down with your product?

Mar 07, 2010

XPO Co-op Pilot (aka Wireless Buddy Box)
by: Evandro Valente

Thanks Matt for placing this blog on here and providing an avenue for word to get out about my product. Geez, how can I make this post brief, there is just too much to talk about.

I have come to believe that the term that was bestowed onto my product (Wireless Buddy Box) when I first came out with it in testing at my home field in the spring of 2008 scratches only the surface of what I am suggesting and introducing to the hobby.

The reality is that the XPO can be used from beginner to advanced flying, from competition settings to First Person View (FPV) & Aerial Photography (AP). Features of the XPO range from freedom of not being connected, to completely independent programming of TXs to redundancy of flight controls! Further, the flexibility of intermingling any technology from AM TXs to 2.4Ghz from any name-brand is unprecedented! Finally, advanced applications go into UAVs, the originating reason of my invention when I flew UAVs for UM.

I decided to mold my business and product on the seams of products made by major companies. No company out there cares to make products that enable users at large to go out and buy other products from other companies. Once you commit to one company, their products are often engineered to capture you and keep you from "going elsewhere". Once a modeler has some amount of money into a specific product line it is even harder to switch since it often involves buying everything again, prime example, switching from 72Mhz to 2.4 Ghz.

My vision is to put in the hands of modelers a product that grows with the modeler from beginner to advanced flying (3D) to competition and even into professional (money-making) applications. Unlike most products in the hobby, this one is not meant to expire as skill level increases or change in taste occurs. For example, I have 4 or 5 different trainer cables for various radio systems and I wish I had my money back...better yet, between my dad and I, we have some 30+ engines in the .40 to .61 range that we don't care to ever use again since we fly bigger stuff now.

I hope to be opening the doors to new ways of enjoying the hobby just as night flying has opened the possibilities of a new enjoyment and avenue for modelers to be branch out.

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Thanks Matt for placing this blog on here and providing an avenue for word to get out about my product. Geez, how can I make this post brief, there is just too much to talk about. I have come to believe that the term that was bestowed onto my product (Wireless Buddy Box) when I first came out with it in testing at my home field in the spring of 2008 scratches only the surface of what I am suggesting and introducing to the hobby. The reality is that the XPO can be used from beginner to advanced flying, from competition settings to First Person View (FPV) & Aerial Photography (AP). Features of the XPO range from freedom of not being connected, to completely independent programming of TXs to redundancy of flight controls! Further, the flexibility of intermingling any technology from AM TXs to 2.4Ghz from any name-brand is unprecedented! Finally, advanced applications go into UAVs, the originating reason of my invention when I flew UAVs for UM. I decided to mold my business and product on the seams of products made by major companies. No company out there cares to make products that enable users at large to go out and buy other products from other companies. Once you commit to one company, their products are often engineered to capture you and keep you from "going elsewhere". Once a modeler has some amount of money into a specific product line it is even harder to switch since it often involves buying everything again, prime example, switching from 72Mhz to 2.4 Ghz. My vision is to put in the hands of modelers a product that grows with the modeler from beginner to advanced flying (3D) to competition and even into professional (money-making) applications. Unlike most products in the hobby, this one is not meant to expire as skill level increases or change in taste occurs. For example, I have 4 or 5 different trainer cables for various radio systems and I wish I had my money back...better yet, between my dad and I, we have some 30+ engines in the .40 to .61 range that we don't care to ever use again since we fly bigger stuff now. I hope to be opening the doors to new ways of enjoying the hobby just as night flying has opened the possibilities of a new enjoyment and avenue for modelers to be branch out.

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Mar 06, 2010

What are the advantages?
by: Matt

Hello Evandro,

You can feel free to explain your product in more detail here if you'd like.

If you don't mind, explain the advantages of a wireless buddy box?

Personally, I don't see it to be that big of an inconvenience to just use a simple wire since the instructor is standing right there any way.

It also seems to me by making a wireless device you are introducing one more thing that could possibly fail.

I am not trying to be critical of your product or anything. It looks to be pretty cool. Just trying to understand why it is really needed?