raymas/rc-calc

A cross-plateform RC / FPV tool

Welcome to RC-Calc!

A self-hosted hopefully one day all-in-one calculator for FPV planes, multirotors and other autonomous or R/C flying stuff.

This project aim to group in one place the different tools I made on Excel spreadsheets, to share them in a more user-friendly way.

What does it do now?

⚠️ This is currently an alpha version, expect some bugs and very limited features!

It is currently under the form of a self-hosted web server. It means that when you run the program, it looks like a normal website but nothing actually goes in and out of your computer.

For now, RC-Calc allows you to:

• Set the proper mV/A for you current sensor, in order to get an accurate power/energy draw reading in your OSD. Might be useful for sweets long-range flights!

What's next?

I have some tools that just need to be included in this program and will give the following features:

• A flight time tracking tool: log your flight times and distances so you can quickly tell if this new battery, propeller or any other equipment actually gives you more performance than usual.
• A battery configurator: to help you building the ultimate li-ion pack. Choose your cells, series and parallel configuration and you will get the weight, price, voltage, capacity of the pack to determine what suits best your needs!

I also have some other tools but I don't really know if they should be included since they are really specific and gave limited results for now, such as a CG calculator for example.

If you have some improvement ideas, please see the contribution section.

Also, I could eventually host the program online if there is a demand for it.

Getting started

Installation

For now, 2 ways are available to use this tool :

1. From the source code (all platforms): this project was coded using Python 3. All you have to do is to download the source code, make sure you have Python 3 and all packages in requirements.txt installed and to start RC_Calc.py.
2. Using the binaries (Windows only): download the latest stable version of RC-Calc.exe and start it.

▶️ Download the latest stable version of those files on the release page.:arrow_backward:

Be aware that RC-Calc will build a database in the db folder, so be careful to save its content when moving to a different version of the software.

Documentation

A detailed documentation is on its way using Sphinx.

Contribution

Massive thanks to @Raymas for his help through this project !

If you have some ideas of features you would like to see in this program, feel free to open an issue. If you are unfamiliar with Github, contacting me on facebook or by email ([email protected]) is also fine.

Please keep in mind I am not a professional developer. Just doing this for fun in my spare time and using it as a learning platform to get better at coding and at using GitHub.