LXer: Hackable, Linux-based flying drone can be controlled by smartphone

LXer · 09-11-2010, 06:12 AM

Published at LXer:

Parrot S.A. is shipping a hackable $300 "quadrocopter" flying drone that runs Linux on a 468MHz ARM9 processor and may be remotely controlled by an iPhone. The AR Drone uses Wi-Fi to receive navigation instructions and transmit video from one of its dual cameras, and it ships with an SDK for developing multiplayer augmented reality games.

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mjolnir · 09-11-2010, 09:57 AM

Cool! $300 seems incredibly cheap to me for this kind of sophistication but I haven't bought anything like this in a while.

mjolnir · 12-12-2010, 10:35 AM

More goodness for the quadcopter.

http://www.robot.tc/2010/11/vision-robot-ros.html

"Vision Robot ROS

Just a quick note that the brown-ros-pkg now includes ardrone_brown. A driver for the AR.Drone. What does this mean? Well it means, as with every new robotic advancement that skynet is one step closer to taking over, this little step gives autonomous quadrocopter robots the ability to track visually. As you'll see in this video below showing the system in action tracking an AR Marker:"

mjolnir · 01-28-2011, 08:58 AM

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...5/#post4240568

I still plan to get one once my finances get past "Christmas shock".