[Hardware-pm] Bus Pirate hacking opportunity

[Timm Murray]

Glad people are picking up on UAV::Pilot :)

I'll be bringing my AR.Drone to the convention, and can make it available
for others to try out (batteries permitting).

Since not everybody can afford to buy a $300 drone, I've been thinking of
making a USB dongle that can communicate with some of the cheaper drones
out there.  Someone figured out how to bridge the 2.4GHz transmitter chip
with Arduino:

http://dzlsevilgeniuslair.blogspot.dk/2013/11/more-toy-quadcopter-hacking.html

That would bring the cost down to $20-30, plus maybe $15 for the dongle.

Thanks,
Timm


On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 9:59 PM, Timm Murray <tmurray978 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Glad people are picking up on UAV::Pilot :)
>
> I'll be bringing my AR.Drone to the convention, and can make it available
> for others to try out (batteries permitting).
>
> Since not everybody can afford to buy a $300 drone, I've been thinking of
> making a USB dongle that can communicate with some of the cheaper drones
> out there.  Someone figured out how to bridge the 2.4GHz transmitter chip
> with Arduino:
>
>
> http://dzlsevilgeniuslair.blogspot.dk/2013/11/more-toy-quadcopter-hacking.html
>
> That would bring the cost down to $20-30, plus maybe $15 for the dongle.
>
> Thanks,
> Timm
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Robert Blackwell <
> robert at robertblackwell.com> wrote:
>
>> I saw Friendly Flying Robots with Ruby by Jim Weirich at Steel City
>> Ruby. It was a great talk. That talk makes me all that more excited to
>> see Make Flying Robots Do Your Bidding With UAV::Pilot by Timm Murray
>> at YAPC::NA.
>>
>> http://lanyrd.com/2013/steel-city-ruby-conference-2013/sckqzt/
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Zachary Zebrowski
>> <zak.zebrowski at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Aside: Just came across this module via the YAPC schedule:
>> > http://search.cpan.org/~tmurray/UAV-Pilot-0.9/lib/UAV/Pilot.pm
>> >
>> > On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Robert Blackwell
>> > <robert at robertblackwell.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> http://blogs.perl.org/users/robert_blackwell/2014/03/bus-pirate-hacking-opportunity.html
>> >>
>> >> Sadly Perl Hardware has been off to an incredibly slow start but his
>> >> YAPC::NA I want to really give it a big kick to get going. In those
>> >> efforts I need help. I am offering a free Bus Pirate v4 to anyone that
>> >> will write a CPAN module and blog post about it. This would need ready
>> >> by June 1 for YAPC::NA. Binary scripting mode examples that may help
>> >> yo get started.
>> >>
>> >> If you are already doing something cool with perl and a Bus Pirate
>> please share.
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