Coptermanager Simple

Control your quadrocopter with JavaScript.

Requirements

• Arduino board (tested with Arduino Due) and A7105 chip
• node.js and npm
• bower (install with npm install -g bower)
• gulp (install with npm install -g gulp)

Setup instructions

1. Follow the instructions to build the transmitter station with a small modification:

• instead of 3 wire SPI use 4 wire SPI:
• skip step 10 "Put an additional wire from the 'SDIO' pin of the A7105 to the 'MISO' pin of the due."
• instead wire 'gio1' of the A7105 chip to the 'MISO' port of the arduino due
• test some resistor values (as written in the tutorial) - mine didn't work with 22K Ohm, but it works with 10K Ohm

2. Clone this repository

3. Open arduino/arduino.ino with the arduino IDE and send it to your arduino board

4. Execute bower install, npm install, npm link and npm link coptermanager-simple

5. Run node start-repl.js

Usage

There are 4 ways to interact with the drone:

1. Issue commands in the node.js REPL: start the REPL with node start-repl.js and then execute commands like client.takeoff(), client.throttle(30), ...
2. Control the drone with your keyboard: open the webapp at http://localhost:3000/copter/keyboard
3. Upload code in the webapp: open http://localhost:3000/copter/code in your browser
4. Execute autonomous scripts: see the examples directory

Code example

var coptermanager = require('coptermanager-simple');
var client = new coptermanager.Client({serialport: '/dev/tty.usbmodem1411'});

client.bind(function() {

  client.takeoff()
  .after(5000, function() {
    this.elevator(112);
  })
  .after(1000, function() {
    this.ledOff();
  })
  .after(1000, function() {
    this.land();
  })
  .after(1000, function() {
    this.disconnect();
  });

});

More examples