controlling Parrot AR drone2 with Max

update – Got the drone today and ran successful test of takeoff, rotate, and land. Next thing to check out is how to get the drone on an existing wifi network…

http://nodecopter.com/guides/connect_to_access_point

To work with a WPA network requires installing a patch to the drone. https://github.com/daraosn/ardrone-wpa2

One workaround for school networks would be to use 2 computers, one for the interenet – one for the drone – and then connect them with midi or something.

This is a work in progress. Going to use the node.js code from the Irish train project for the OSC communication with Max.

First, install ar-drone

$ npm install ar-drone

Here’s the generic Max <=> node.js code using OSC. It handles OSC commands bidirectionally.

• internetsensors/generic-node-OSC.js
• internetsensors/generic-node-OSC.maxpat

Here’s the initial drone testing code