AR Drone 2.0 DSM2-Wifi bridge A small DSM2-wifi bridge to fly the AR Drone with a DSM2 controller. The controller:The DX5e is officially a five channel transmitter but there is a trainer switch that controls channel six. So I have a total of six channels. Four are used for flying that leaves me two channels for take off, landing and emergency. Also need a way to notify the flyer that the batteries are low. Normally this done through the app, but since this is a one way link we need a different way of communicating.The receiver:I'm going to use the OrangeRx R410X. This receiver has four PWM outputs and a 6Ch CPPM output. I will only use the 6Ch CPPM because I can read the 6 channels with one input instead reading the PWM signals individually. Also the receiver returns the channels to the state when they where in the bind position. I can use this function to detect when the drone has lost connection. Landing/Takeoff:For this I will use a toggle switch thats on the DX5e. Take off will be done on the rising edge.

If the switch is returned or the drone loses connection the signal will go back to low. This falling edge will put the drone into hover mode. In this mode triggering the momentary trainer switch will make the drone land. This makes sure the drone doesn't fly off or crash when connection is lost. If the switch is turned on or connection is reestablished the drone will continue flying.Emergency:There is a emergency mode which cuts all engine and the drone will drop out of the sky. Using this function is very dangerous but can be useful. The momentary trainer switch will be used for this. To make sure I don't get false positives and the drone falling back to earth, the switch should be held for a period of time before activating the emergency mode.Low battery:I thought of two ways communicating with the flyer, movement or leds. Leds are a bit hard to see from far away so movement is my choice. The plan is to make the drone rotate around its axis until the flyer acknowledge it with the Landing/takeoff switch.

After the switch is set to low the drone will keep spinning for a moment. When it has stopped the flyer can decide to land or go back to fly mode to find a decent spot to land.Hardware:The hardware shouldn't be much a 3.3V regulator for the ESP8266 and a level shifter to convert the 5V output from the receiver to 3.3V for the ESP8266. We have lift-off and crash.... Finished the first version of the code. It flew and worked okay. But after a while of the drone and it was heading towards water. parrot ar drone kullananlarSo I had to perform an emergency landing. parrot ar drone raggio d'azioneThe drone was not happy with this landing and I broke one of the beams. parrot ar drone negozio

The drone has since been repaired but I have to work a bit more on the code. Problems is mostly with the AR.Drone documentation which is horrible at best. Code is now on github Today the orangeRX receiver arrived. I chose a different one then planned because this one was available in the European warehouse. Measuring the signal line gave me a cPPM of 3V, so no level shifting required. The hardware consists of a LD33V, wire and a usb cable. drone helicopter buyThe usb cable powers the orangeRX and the D33V. ar drone 2 with goproThe LD33V powers the ESP8266.ar drone 2 prezziStarting working on the software first attempt was in lua using the NodeMCU firmware. But that firmware crashed a lot without reason so I switched over to the SDK + Arduino ide. Decoding of the input signal is done now, next is control and after that i can work on the AT commands of the AR Drone.Gallery updated with hardware picture.

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Besides giving us ideas for a North by Northwest remake, the flight emphasized the possibilities that come when we have access to a long-distance wireless link with high bandwidth, such as monitoring crops or some very literal field journalism. The challenge will be convincing Alcatel-Lucent to share its trick and let us pester our not-so-next-door neighbors. From around the web ear iconeye icontext fileDrone 2.0 Power Edition stays in the air longer, lands in the US this month We'll say this about the AR.Drone's battery life up to now: it always seemed perfectly suited to our short attention spans. For those able to focus on flying objects a bit longer, however, there's the AR.Drone 2.0 Power Edition. The quadricopter's already gotten some love abroad and is set to hit our shores this month, priced at $370 over at that fine purveyor of massage chairs, Brookstone. This time out, the limited edition phone-controlled device brings 36 minutes of flight time (not the first boost we've seen from the company), thanks to two 1,500mAh lithium-polymers.