Artoo Adaptor For Crazyflie

This repository contains the Artoo (http://artoo.io/) adaptor for the Crazyflie micro-quadcopter (http://www.bitcraze.se/).

Artoo is a open source micro-framework for robotics using Ruby.

For more information abut Artoo, check out our repo at https://github.com/hybridgroup/artoo

The artoo-crazyflie adaptor is based on the crubyflie gem (https://github.com/hsanjuan/crubyflie).

gem install artoo-crazyflie

require 'artoo'

connection :crazyflie, :adaptor => :crazyflie
device :drone, :driver => :crazyflie, :connection => :crazyflie, :interval => 0.1

work do
  drone.forward(0)
  drone.set_thrust_on
  after(1.seconds) {drone.stop}
end

The Crazyflie uses a 2.4 GHz radio to communicate. There is a USB dongle called the Crazyradio that is required to control the Crazyflie quadcopter.

If you are have a USB 3.0 port, you might run into this issue http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17204253/crazyflie-usb-3-0-incompability

To use the Crazyflie beta 'hover' mode, you will need to install the latest beta of firmware to the Crazyflie itself from https://bitbucket.org/bitcraze/crazyflie-firmware/downloads/Crazyflie_2013.11-beta1.bin

Once you have updated the Crazyflie firmware, to trigger the hover mode on, use the flightmode.althold param on the Crazyflie like this:

  @crazyflie.param.set_value('flightmode.althold', true)

Please note that the Crazyflie's interprets hover to mean "maintain altitude", not "stay in one place", so you will need to control horizontal positioning yourself.

To turn hover mode off:

  @crazyflie.param.set_value('flightmode.althold', false)

Once you turn hover mode off, the Crazyflie requires that you immediately apply thrust, or it will just drop like an unpowered PCB from the air. You have been warned...

Check out our documentation for lots of information about how to use Artoo.

Need more help? Just want to say "Hello"? Come visit us on IRC freenode #artoo

• All active development is in the dev branch. New or updated features must be added to the dev branch. Hotfixes will be considered on the master branch in situations where it does not alter behaviour or features, only fixes a bug.
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