This project provides an open source firmware for the AR.Drone quadrocopter by Parrot. WARNING: This project is not supported nor endorsed by Parrot S.A., using the this sofware will most likely void your warranty and might destroy your drone or make it fly away into deep space. Use at your own risk. The new firmware for the drone is called 'fly'. Upon start it will listen on UDP port 7777, waiting for the pc based contoller called 'OpenFlight' to connect. Once OpenFlight connects, 'fly' will kill the Parrot firmware 'program.elf' and takes over control of the drone. OpenFlight logs the flight data to a file called YYYYMMDDHHMMSS_navlog.csv. - The PID controller parameters have not been optimized yet and currently only use 'P' parameters. In particular the height controller will probably settle below the target height, or the drone might not have enough power to take off. - The OpenFlight user interface is very rudimentary. - No soft landing function is implemented.

In order to land: fly the drone to minimum altitude and then switch off the motors. - 'Flat Trim' parameters are not saved and are estimated after OpenFlight connects. Place the drone on a horizontal surface before connecting with OpenFlight. - No battery voltage monitoring. The drone will fall out of the sky once the battery is drained. 1) FTP the folder ardrone/bin to your drone 2) Open a telnet session to your drone and execute: # chmod 777 /data/video/bin/* 3) On your pc, start OpenFlight.exe and follow the instructions on screen.Execute the following command to make 'fly' start everytime you powerup the drone: # echo -e " /data/video/bin/fly &" >> /etc/init.d/rcS Other telnet commandline demo programs on the drone are: You'll need to execute `killall program.elf` before using these programs! # /data/video/bin/navboard - to see the navboard raw sensor data (3-axis accelleration, 3-axis gyro, sonar echos) # /data/video/bin/attitude - to see the navboard attitude data (pitch angle, roll angle, yaw angle, height)

# /data/video/bin/motorboard - to control the motors/leds # /data/video/bin/vbat - to see the on board voltages # /data/video/bin/video - turns the drone into a giant optical mouse, keep it about 1 meter above ground and move it parallel to the ground. parrot ar drone quadricopter for iphone/ipod touchThe program should report the movement.facebook in talks to acquire drone maker titan aerospace ardrone/bin - Pre-compiled binaries. ar drone parrot colombiaFTP these files to your drone and run them in a telnet session.grendel drone commander sale

ardrone/fly - Custom firmware to fly the drone, the controller is under pc/OpenFlight ardrone/navboard - Navboard driver and demo getting raw data from the navboard and converting it to realworld units (works)parrot ar drone pret ardrone/attitude - Attitude driver and demo calculating attitude (pitch,roll,yaw and height) estimates from navboard data (works)parrot ar drone hull ardrone/motorboard - Motorboard driver and demo control of the 4 motors and leds (works) ardrone/vbat - Battery voltage driver and demo (works) ardrone/gpio - GPIO driver and demo (works) ardrone/video - Video driver and demo (works, but needs start&kill of program.elf) pc/OpenFlight - C# controller for /ardrone/fly 2) On Windows: open a command prompt and cd to one of the directories 3) Run the make.bat batch file to compile the program in that directory

1) Download and install Visual Studio C# 2010 Express 19-Sep-2011 V03 Added ardrone/fly and pc/OpenFlight 20-Jul-2011 V02 Added video 17-Jul-2011 V01 Initial release Merge pull request #62 from jeffallen/help GoDrone is a firmware for the Parrot AR Drone 2.0. by Felix Geisendörfer and others using the Go programming language. There is no affiliation with Parrot and running this firmware may void your warranty. Please read the docs at: http://www.godrone.io/en/latest/Published: Dec 25, 2013 at 19:24 UTC Merry Christmas (or Newtonmas if you prefer) everybody. Today I'm very happy to release the first version of my favorite side project, GoDrone. GoDrone is a free software alternative firmware for the Parrot AR Drone 2.0. And yes, this hopefully makes it the first robotic visualizer for Go's garbage collector : ). At this point the firmware is good enough to fly and provide basic attitude stabilization (using a simple complementary filter + pid controllers), so I'd really love to get feedback from any adventurous AR Drone owners.

I'm providing binary installers for OSX/Linux/Windows: But you may also choose to install from source. Depending on initial feedback, I'd love to turn GoDrone into a viable alternative to the official firmware, and breathe some fresh air into the development of robotics software. In particular I'd like to show that web technologies can rival native mobile/desktop apps in costs and UX for providing user interfaces to robots, and I'd also like to promote the idea of using high level languages for firmware development in linux powered robots. If you're interested, please make sure to join the mailing list / come and say hello in IRC: Subscribe to this blog via or or get small updates from me via . Last Update: Dec 25, 2013 at 19:24 UTCIf you would like to downgrade, upgrade, or re-install firmware you can do so at your own risk by using these files and instructions. Download the version you want below. (Don’t change the filename.) Power up your AR.