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

/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

API

• https://projects.ardrone.org/

Links / external documentation

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

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