DIY Head Tracker For A Tenner

Hari_Seldon

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Hi guys.
I bought ridden a Edtracker 9150 but I have a problem ...


I installed the drivers as the instructions and put on my pc recognizes the edtracker well as port 3, but for some strange reason gives me trouble installing the flash with 4.0.1.0 UI application.


The application recognizes the port and install the 4.0.1 edtracker2_9150 but the application takes too long to recognize that the device is installed, once recognized the application becomes very slow, as if stutters, also if I choose the "magnometer" returns to "monitoring" herself.
If I click on "reset factory default" the plication stops with an error message.
I've tried other flash options like calibration and if that works.

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[video=youtube;EUaA7l-OGT8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUaA7l-OGT8&feature=youtu.be[/video]
Sorry for my English by google translate

Help me please
 
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Arkhanist

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alowva said:
EDIT: has anyone tried the Sennheiser PC 363D with 9150 EDtracker?
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I have my 9150 edtracker strapped to an old pair of sennheiser PC350 which works great, and its very similar to the PC363D. I nearly bought the hyper x cloud II myself rather than refurb my PC350 with new earpads and the hero mod (holes in the driver case to improve bass on that model) - sounds like I had a lucky escape!
 

AMacdonald

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I have the HyperX headset (best sounding and most comfortable headset I've ever come across, incidentally) and no problems with my 9150. I did calibrate the magnetometer with the device already attached to the headset though so presumably that would counteract any magnetic effects from the drivers?
 
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alowva

alowva
Arkhanist said:
I have my 9150 edtracker strapped to an old pair of sennheiser PC350 which works great, and its very similar to the PC363D. I nearly bought the hyper x cloud II myself rather than refurb my PC350 with new earpads and the hero mod (holes in the driver case to improve bass on that model) - sounds like I had a lucky escape!
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That's good to know, hopefully I can get a pair, they seem to be out of stock everywhere! Thanks

AMacdonald said:
I have the HyperX headset (best sounding and most comfortable headset I've ever come across, incidentally) and no problems with my 9150. I did calibrate the magnetometer with the device already attached to the headset though so presumably that would counteract any magnetic effects from the drivers?
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That's weird, did you make the EDtracker yourself? And do you have the cloud II or the older headset?

I think that might be my problem as I don't have it in an enclosure and I used short wires instead of a PCB or proto board, I've just ordered an enclosure and PCB, though I don't imagine it will make much difference...
 
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AMacdonald

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Mine is self-built using the Hobby Components kit and attached to the top band of my headset, uncased, with velcro. The headset is the v1 HyperX but it has the same physical dimensions and magnets (53mm drivers) as the v2.
 
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alowva

alowva
AMacdonald said:
Mine is self-built using the Hobby Components kit and attached to the top band of my headset, uncased, with velcro. The headset is the v1 HyperX but it has the same physical dimensions and magnets (53mm drivers) as the v2.
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Interesting... Did you buy the 9150 board separately? I could only find the 6050 bundle so got the individual pieces from them. I'm using Velcro too but have it wrapped in electricians tape.

Maybe my magnetometer is just incredibly sensitive. When it's not on the headphones I have it one position from the right, on the headset I have it at one poison from the left (set as described in the calibration video as just before the points go up fast with no movement.
 

AMacdonald

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The 9150 kits seem to go pretty quickly. I set an alert on the hobby components website so I got an email as soon as new stock arrived. Ordering separately should be fine too, as long as you get a 9150 with an onboard voltage regulator. I didn't do anything special with my calibration - just adjusted the slider until points started registering then moved it round and round axes until 1000 points or so had been stored. Only had to do it once.
 

Bikky

Bikky
Anyone got open track working with this? I've got the 9150 and it's not as stable as it used to be, but I can't find the actual link for open track, I just go around the download site in circles following the next link
 

tooterfish

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Antmax

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brumster said:
Two releases in one night?! Holy magnetometers, batman!

GUI 4.0.4.0 + Magnetometer MPU-9150 4.0.3 firmware update on the website...

Key points are orientation fixes plus a bug fix for a rare occurrence with mag wrapping, plus other minor tweaks.

Happy tracking, commanders!
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Excellent. I jlooked for that when 1.2 first finished downloading lol. Logged off of the game and found this.

Bikky said:
Anyone got open track working with this? I've got the 9150 and it's not as stable as it used to be, but I can't find the actual link for open track, I just go around the download site in circles following the next link
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I found the older 2.2 stable version better than 2.3. Seems smoother and less drag plus the centering and on/off keybinds are more responsive and easier to use with EliteOCR.
 

Jer the Stampede

Jer the Stampede
Just tried v4.0.3
The yaw is automatically centring even when device is turned X degrees.
EDIT - I updated the GUI to 4.0.4.0 and it 'seems' to have fixed it.

Thanks for any help.

NOOOO I just noticed you've removed the old 9150 test sketches :eek:
 
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Cazerus

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@Brumster and the crew

Finally got it all working as intended, there was no problems with the EdTracker at all, it was .....windows.... yeah stupid program.
Cant count the number of fixes I had to try to get it working, but eventually windows decided to recognise the game controller and its been happy ever since, even when I unplug the device it now connects automatically on plug and play, awesome job guys thanks.
 

Pastie

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brumster said:
Cool (or not, as the case may be!). Just so no-one panics, 27degC is not hot by any stretch, and I find the devices normally stabilise at 31 to 32degC. So while I accept it sounds like yours is faulty, I didn't want others panicking thinking 31degC was about to explode ;-)

Sounds like potentially a faulty MPU IC, maybe. Shame, from your previous post of it working with other cables I thought we'd nailed it :( !!
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Hi, Received my new one today and it's working great,

Thanks to Dom for sorting this out for me.

All updated also :)
 

brumster

brumster
Jer the Stampede said:
Just tried v4.0.3
The yaw is automatically centring even when device is turned X degrees.
EDIT - I updated the GUI to 4.0.4.0 and it 'seems' to have fixed it.

Thanks for any help.

NOOOO I just noticed you've removed the old 9150 test sketches :eek:
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I've tidied up a load of test ones but if you want any, I can provide for flashing with the command line tool. The main reason the GUI hides them is that the magnetometer calibration has changed in the latest sketch, along with orientation handling, and it necessitates a change of GUI - so it purposely hides older sketches that it's not compatible with. Finger cross though, there should be no reason to use 4.0.1 any more, from a firmware perspective it had some fundamental orientation bugs and isn't worth going back to (at least we don't believe so!)...
 

Jer the Stampede

Jer the Stampede
I'd hit you with some Rep Brumster but apparently I've got to share the love :)

I've just installed v4.0.3 on my own EDTracker (I'd previously set up a couple of friends) and after half an hour using it it's a huge step forward.

Excellent, thanks
 

PiLhEaD

PiLhEaD
My 9150 has been rock-solid even before this latest release - really zero issues... well... excepting that the 9150 cannot stop my headphones slipping around on my head...

In any event, I'll give 4.0.3 a bash soon... ish...

...in the mean time, another huge thanks to all involved - great job!
 

Veloxi

Veloxi
Hey y'all, question. I installed the new software, loaded the new sketch, and did the calibration. The result was round...ish...

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I then tried this with Elite: Dangerous, and it ran PERFECTLY. No problems at all, smoother than ever, retained center with little to no issues. I guess my question/concern is...is a pattern like that normal....ish?

I did the calibration twice and it looked like that, and since it ran okay in Elite, I'm not overtly concerned, I just wanted to check in.

Thanks folks!
 

brumster

brumster
We should have a competition for who can do the most interesting pattern or image via the mag calibration phase :)

I see mushrooms.

It doesn't look ideal but ultimately you need the mag calibration more in the yaw range than any other, as that's the range that drifts and needs correcting. You can see you've spun it around, what looks like in two planes (upside down and rightside up maybe)? Did you just twirl it around but not through all positions/orientations?

Ultimately, if it works, it works.... ;)
 
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