[Hardware-pm] Bus Pirate hacking opportunity

[Zachary Zebrowski]

That's awesome.  I can see a lot of useful uses for this. :-)

Cheers,
Zak

On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 11:01 PM, Timm Murray <tmurray at wumpus-cave.net> 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 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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