Have you tried it without the ez-b connected?

You're combining two things in your message to clarify from the FAQ page: EZ-B is the hardware circuit board ARC is the comtrol software

Try ARC without the ez-b connected. I'm thinking your drone is acceptable to interference of the ez-b? I can't understand what else it could be.

I fly my drones daily with ARC :)

I'll try it without the EZ-B connected, I guess we didn't do that at your place either and yes I was meaning ARC where I said EZ-B, will try today before I give up on it.

EZ-B disconnected allowed the drone to be controlled after switching off other Wi-fi connections and making sure Ardrone wi-fi connected OK then running ARC to control. While colour recognition seemed to be working as soon as I get the drone flying and try to follow a colour object then ARC freezes up. This was the same (on my drone) as at your place and some interference may well be possible yet is it not strange that I had the same interference at your place.

I do have a phone system with wireless communication --next thing is to take the laptop down the road and try just ARC and see if it does not freeze--but why does it freeze the program (on new and pretty good laptop) and not just give flying interference?

Still curious to hear from any other Ardrone flyers out there using EX-Builder? confused

i bought my AR drone about a year ago ,its a great product and now i see its one of the top 5 toys for the summer on using the AR DRONE you do need a big backyard or a very powerfull WIFI booster,like i made for mine almost 2 miles from my house i can use it

so far with too many robot projects i have to make,havent had time to hook it up to EZB,BUT SOON

Hi Robotmaker, what kind of wifi booster did you use/make???? Range is definitely a problem. Let me know how the hookup to EZB goes.

it is very high cost ,but first you need a high power wifi high power wifi router second you need a booster amp

high power booster amp 3rd you need a good outdoor grid antenna,i added a special circuit to adjust the antenna by SWR but dont really need it if you point the antenna right outdoor grid antenna almost any wifi router will work ,only this uses wrt linux software about $200 total

Thx for the info, guess that will be on Santa's list!!

So to get object tracking to work you must have the ez-b correct? Rather than buying the entire EZ kit for $160 can anyone tell me what pieces i would need if I bought them a-la-carte?

Thanks! j

As far as I know it doesn't even need to be fitted to the drone, if you don't add anything else such as sensors to it then you can get away with the bare minimum, so just an EZB would do, otherwise the software runs slow.

Plus power for the EZB. Battery pack & adaptor or use an old router's power supply if you have one that fits. Anything from ~5v to ~18v will work.

Hi, I'm trying to use object tracking with my AR.Drone 2.0. I have the EZ-B connected via bluetooth, and the Drone connected via Wifi. I can control the drone with ARC but I cannot choose a camera - when I click "Sel Camera" i get this message:

"EZB 0: TCP Server stopped AR Drone Picture Socket Exception An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host AR Drone Picture Socket Exception An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host AR Drone Picture Socket Exception An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host AR Drone Picture Socket Exception An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host AR Drone Picture Socket Exception An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host AR Drone Picture Socket Exception An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host AR Drone Camera Stopped

EZB 1: TCP Server stopped

EZB 2: TCP Server stopped

EZB 3: TCP Server stopped

EZB 4: TCP Server stopped"

I have also tried "add>Camera>camera device" and it just crashes. Even if both teh EZ-B and drone are disconnected.

My machine is: Dell XPS 64 bit Windows 7 Pro SP1 Intel i7 8GB ram w/ built in webcam

Any thoughts?

Thanks guys, Jason

@Jason,

ARC is currently only compatible with AR Drone 1.0. Parrot changed the SDK with 2.0 and only very recently released an update, and the update was only for Android and Linux, so DJ has not integrated it yet (and may not unless they do a Windows SDK. He has many other things on his todo list).

Alan