Computer Control of Off The Shelf "Cheap" Quadcopters
Basics
- This page goes over potential methods for controlling cheap (80-200USD) quadcopter camera "drones" with a PC rather than the included remote and/or mobile app
- Many work via an unsecured 5ghz wifi connection, and thus are quite "hackable"
- Despite not being as user maintainable / capable as a custom built Quadcopter , they are heavily accessible, and quite cost effective, and thus may be of use
- Also may be a cheap way to develop Swarm Robotics
Internal Links
External Links
- An article by "Medium" Titled "Hacking a Toy Drone to Put Artificial Intelligence on It, Part 1: The Hack!"
- A Video by the YouTube Channel "Adam Savage's Tested Titled "Hacking a $20 Toy Helicopter into an Autonomous Drone" (Used a 20 USD "Micro Helicopter (no onboard camera 1 counterotor) ", an Arduino mega connected to the gutted ir remote, and a program using the Arduino mega as a Logic Analyzer (via an open source project (which project) ), then custom code for the hid devices they added in
- An Article by "Computer World" Titled "A cheap quadcopter, computer vision techniques and thousands of plastic ducks prove drones’ value in ecology" Seems like they are just using the OTS software, and a photo/video processor, interesting article nonetheless
- An Article by "Hackaday" Titled "HACKING A CHEAP TOY QUADCOPTER TO WORK WITH ARDUINO" (Used an Arduino connected to the RF transmitter)
- Some neat models:
- ~70 USD, and has seemingly good protection of the propellers and removable batteries
- SOme ad that seems too good to be true, but probably is, but 4k for 90 USD (granted other specs, and if it has a global shutter etc...)
- Snaptain SP650 (The one User: Eric has, battery is cable attached, not a cartridge so hard to work with (may come with mass savings though)
- 90 USD with cartrige style batteries
