Version vom 13. November 2010, 16:11 Uhr

ARDrone

Parrot produces a very nice quadcopter called "ARDone"

Homepage: http://ardrone.parrot.com/parrot-ar-drone/usa/

In Vienna you can get them at Mediamarkt for 300,- EUR

Documentation

Hardware

• Mykonos Parrot platform,
• REv: 0904
• Memory: 128MB RAM
• CPU: ARM926EJ-S rev 5
• Wi-Fi: AR6000
• Linux kernel 2.6.27

The Wi-Fi chip seems to have it's own SDIO interface driver. Anyway, the good news for us is, that ad-hoc mode works very well.

API

• https://projects.ardrone.org/projects/show/ardrone-api