ARDrone

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

We plan to make a mesh of flying drones.

FAQ

• how long can it fly?

Approximately 15 minutes

• how much can it carry?

Approx. 200 grams

Documentation

Hardware

• Linux myhost 2.6.27.47-parrot-01227-g93dde09 #1 PREEMPT Fri Jul 2 15:23:06 CEST 2010 armv5tejl GNU/Linux
• Processor : ARM926EJ-S rev 5 (v5l)
• Mykonos Parrot platform,
• REv: 0904
• Memory: 128MB RAM
• Wi-Fi: AR6000

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.

FILESYSTEM

1. ls /

bin dev factory home mnt root sys update var data etc firmware lib proc sbin tmp usr www

1. ls /bin

ash cp false ip mv pwd stat vi busybox cttyhack fgrep ipcalc netstat random_ip stty watch cat date gdbserver kill olsr.sh random_mac sync wifi_setup.sh channelselector dd getopt ln olsrd reset_dhcp.sh tar zcat check_update.sh df grep ls pairing_setup.sh rm touch checkplf dmesg gunzip mkdir pidof rmdir true chgrp echo gzip mknod ping sed umount chmod egrep hostname mktemp program.elf sh uname chown factory_reset_cb httpd mount ps sleep usleep

1. ls /etc

fstab hostname httpd.conf init.d ld.so.cache olsrd.conf profile udhcpd.conf group hosts inetd.conf inittab nsswitch.conf passwd protocols

1. ls /etc/init.d

rcS

API

• https://projects.ardrone.org/

Links / external documentation

• http://www.kapejod.org/2010/08/parrot-ar-drone-linux-internals/

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