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Zizo Transponder Locator
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Vehicles: Air, Sea, Land
Microcontrollers: Calculation, Navigation, Cockpit, Microcontroller
Tags: v1.9.18
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25 Nov, 2023 @ 10:11am
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Zizo Transponder Locator

Description
This microprocessor allows for precise transponder position location using triangulation algorithms with the data collected from just your vehicle and displays the result on the monitor map.

The system requires you to move around a bit in order to triangulate the transponder, the more you move, the more it narrows down an exact location.
Due to the imprecision of the transponder frequency itself, and speed of your vehicle, the first few detections are usually quite wrong, keep moving and the triangulation will succeed.

Features:
  • Very simple to use, everything is automated.
  • Little information displayed, very easy to read.
  • Works on any monitor size, optimized for 1x1 monitors.
  • Touchscreen.
  • Map customizable.

Installation:
  • Connect the Physics sensor composite data to the microprocessor.
    (physics sensor blue arrow must face forward, red arrow right and green arrow upwards)
  • Connect the video feed from the microprocessor to a monitor.
  • Connect the Transponder pulse from a transponder locator to the microprocessor.
  • Connect the Transponder locator node from the microprocessor to the Transponder locator active node.
  • Connect the Transponder from the microprocessor to the Transponder active.
  • Connect the Touchscreen from the monitor to the microprocessor.
  • Make sure that everything is connected to electricity and that your monitor is turned on.

Usage:
  1. Touchscreen controls:
    Touchscreen button
    Function
    T
    Toggles on and off the transponder locator and starts the triangulation process
    C(1/2/3)
    Changes the focus mode when avaiable
    +/-
    Zooms the map in and out when possible
    M
    Changes the map coloration between the two choosen presets
    (choose presets in the microprocessor properties)
    B
    Activates the emergency transponder of your vehicle so that others can find you
  2. Move around a little in any direction (~1km) so that the triangulation can be calculated properly.
  3. Enjoy the transponder located precisely on the map.

Remastered:
  • The triangulation algorithm is now much more powerful.
  • Map is now fully customizable on 10 presets.
  • Touchscreen with intuitive and minimalistic interface.
  • Displays distance to the active transponder all the time.
  • Manages your own transponder too.

Extra knowledge:
  • When closer to 300 meters this will not work anymore
  • Great speed does break the calculations.
  • The triangulation output is updated at most every 200 meters travelled.
  • To reset the calculations simply toggle "T" off and on again.
  • Does not work properly with multiple transponders active, will detect just the closest one.
37 Comments
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Lord_Bison 19 May @ 7:20am 
Love this Locator! My old buddy used to say, If the game lets you do it, it ain't cheating. ;)
Javitu 5 Feb @ 7:51pm 
Found and installed! works great!
Javitu 5 Feb @ 7:45pm 
I cannot find it
Mongrade 12 Nov, 2023 @ 3:39pm 
Hey, not sure if you would even bother with the current state of the game, but if the transponder locator's monitor is off and is kept off for an extended period of time, when the monitor is eventually turned on, the location shown on the map is as far south in the world as possible to the point where the monitor just shows grey (out of bounds). This probably has to do with the changes to the boundaries of the world "wrapping around" now for the Space DLC, which I do not have. Not sure is this is a LUA programming issue, or an actual bug with how physics sensors and monitors work post-Space DLC. Hopefully it can be LUA programmed out regardless. Amazing job on the actual locator. Cheers.
Peekofwar 21 Jul, 2023 @ 12:00pm 
Can confirm it works since I've tested this before, so it is likely either user error or there was no active transponder in range.
Karl Jonas P YT 19 Jul, 2023 @ 6:23am 
ok
Zizo  [author] 19 Jul, 2023 @ 3:12am 
That means there is no active transponder in range to find. And if there is you probably didn't connect the on/off on the transponder locator block itself.
Karl Jonas P YT 19 Jul, 2023 @ 2:47am 
when i do all the stuff right the monitor just say no signal
Peekofwar 5 Mar, 2023 @ 8:25pm 
Oh. Yeah, I think that might actually be how it works. I'd have to test it to be sure though (unless it's literally stated in a component description somewhere).
Zizo  [author] 5 Mar, 2023 @ 11:09am 
Hey Peekofwar, if there are multiple transponders I believe the locator only beeps for the closest one so this system also detects just the closest one.