Home » drones » Parrot AR drone – money sink or best toy ever? You’re here because you’ve heard of the Parrot AR drone – and for good reason. The current model, called the “Elite Edition 2.0,” is one of the most popular drones on the market. But will it collect dust in your garage or become your new favorite gadget? Here are 5 things to keep in mind, based on a roundup of reviews. 4. Consider the Power Edition – or at least a spare batteryCreate a gist now Instantly share code, notes, and snippets. parrot ar drone 2.0 arduino communication with node possible other names: ardrono, dronenodeuino, ardronenodeuino, arnodedroneduino ahahahah above shot is from @rem getting node on the drone untar node-serialport and put node and the node-serialport folder onto a usb thumbstick thingy put the thumbstick thingy into the drone (like in the above photo) telnet into drone, telnet 192.168.1.1(it might be usb1) cp -r usb/node-serialport/ node_modules/

note: you can use node-serialport to get data from arduino but you can't use johnny-five because it depends on firmata which doesn't support Tx/Rx serial communication this last point means you have to write actual arduino sketches and upload them to the arduino directly, but you can still write node code that runs on the drone to reads the serial data also I found out that since the serial port on the drone is intended as a debug console you will get a bunch of debug data spewing out at you from the boards Tx pin. I don't know how to turn it off at this time. what this means is you can send data into the drone over serial but you can't (to my knowledge -- someone should hack this) send data from the drone over serial to a device yet here is where things get tricky be very careful that you don't eff up your drone! the drone has a female USB port exposed next to the battery connector but unfortunately it is hardcoded into host mode so it can only be used with mass storage devices :(

that last point is based on my naive understanding of electronics. prove me wrong and fork these instructions! there is another serial console on the drone motherboard open up the bottom of the drone under the little piece of black tape to expose a buncha plastic hole thingies: turns out this has pins for TTL serial communication and USB serial communication. this awesome post by jazzomaniak is where I figured this outparrot ar drone store here is a pinout from jazzomaniak:ar parrot drone cut out emergency ** it has come to my attention that the serial console tx/rx pins on the AR Drone 2 run at 1.8v which means you'll need a level converter to talk to the arduino. parrot ar drone and gopro

here is a schematic from the mirumod project that shows where the level converter should be installed ** without a level converter i still was able to receive and transmit serial data from arduino to drone but it was flaky. i believe (but have not yet tested) that after fixing the voltage mismatch that communication will be much more reliable you'll wanna get some thinnish gauge wire (around AWG 16 I reckon, AWG 22 is for most breadboards and my 22 wire didn't fit into the drone serial ports)parrot ar drone slow motion get an arduino uno which provides 5v or 3.3v TTL serial via digital ports (Rx and Tx). ar drone 2 camera emergencydue and uno have this, not sure about othersuav drone for sale uk here is a shot from @rem of drone with the entire bottom cover removedparrot ar drone ios 5

you can also theoretically power the arduino from #8 and #9 on the drone if you hook them up to a barrel power jack thingy for the arduino (or use the Vin and GND pins for the same effect). I haven't hooked this up yet cause I ran out of cables. @rem in the comments below said he got it working you can also use the other USB port on the drone to power the arduino, but I don't have a short enough USB cable for this upload the sketch in this gist called helloworld.pde to the arduino in a telnet shell on the drone type cat /proc/cmdline and find out which tty device the 'console' is set to. on my drone it was ttyO3 set the tty socket to raw mode: stty -F /dev/ttyO3 -raw verify the baud rate of the socket: stty -F /dev/ttyO3. mine originally said 115200 but after messing with it it seems to change to 9600. the arduino sketch and the node code running on the drone need to both contain whatever stty tells you the baud rate is for communication to work. the Input/output error above is because I was sending serial data from the arduino into the drone.

I unplugged the serial cables from the arduino and tried the command again and it worked. I think it was around this time that the drone decided to switch baud rates to 9600 go into a node repl (./node) and copy paste in helloworld.js from this gist sp = ("", { You signed in with another tab or window. Reload to refresh your session. You signed out in another tab or window. Reload to refresh your session.Adding an H.264 decoder using ffmpeg. Adding prototype png splitter. More shonky Python to make it possible to receive PNGs from AR. Further work towards an AR.Drone-2.0 compatible Python video interface. Switching default to AR. Fixes need to work with ARDrone 2.0 including deal Merge pull request #1 from braincorp/first-attempt Debug and test to handle delays with ardrone 2.0 Where is the error ? New changes, delay closer to 300 ms new files that I removed new test for losing connection Remove prints and some cleaning

Only send navdata information when flying information is available Cleaning code, removing prints and stuff Address pull request comments Merge pull request #2 from braincorp/removing_delays Dealing with lost connection with the parrot Merge pull request #4 from braincorp/Improving_connection_stability Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into improve-video-perf Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/improve-video-perf' into improve… Merge pull request #3 from braincorp/improve-video-perf Removing IPC Thread and fixing bug Removing Process, replace with thread Merge pull request #5 from braincorp/Removing_IPC_Thread Option for hd in camera setting for the drone Merge pull request #6 from braincorp/HD_VS_SD_OPTION Test for library installed Merge pull request #7 from braincorp/Fix_bug_ffmpeg Merge pull request #8 from braincorp/init_file_missing Make capture 10 times smaller and remove ppm stream