Jumping-Box

Add a cool designed Box on the top of your Parrot Jumping Drone that you can open and close remotely.

The heart of this box is a Pololu Maestro servo controller

Diagram :

How it's Work

On the Drone you have a MaestroServer.c which listen on 4567 udp port for command On the controller you can send open or close command to control the box

Build and Installation

• Cross Compile MaestroServer.c for arm v5.1 with

  arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc -Wall --static -O2 -marm -march=armv5 MaestroServer.c -o MaestroServer -lm

• transfer the executable to your drone

• Make script to load module

  insmod /lib/modules/2.6.36/kernel/drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.ko on Sumo

  insmod /lib\modules\2.6.36-102961-gf9f11f3\kernel\drivers\usb/class/cdc-acm.ko on Diesel

• and run MaestroServer executable

Utilisation

• Use my LibSumo.Net library and call Controller.OpenBox() or Controller.CloseBox()
• or Use Parrot SDK and implement your code to transmit command to drone on this base:

   Socket sock = new Socket(AddressFamily.InterNetwork, SocketType.Dgram, ProtocolType.Udp);
   IPAddress serverAddr = IPAddress.Parse("192.168.2.1");
   IPEndPoint endPoint = new IPEndPoint(serverAddr, 4567);    
   byte[] send_buffer = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("open");
   sock.SendTo(send_buffer, endPoint);

Notes :

• Be sur you use small servo which have a minimum power consumption.