Alvaro95
USA
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When I saw how you guys made the Parrot ar drone follow the red ball I found it really interesting. I do not want to buy a new parrot ar, but I wouldn't mind building my own quadcopter, how could I build my quadcopter and make it follow a red ball or avoid obstacles? is that possible? or I can only do it if I buy a parrot ar?
Oh I thought by just using the program for the ar parron in ARC would take care of the flying arround by itself.
No the parrot uses its own communication protocol , it doesn't directly translate to a RC quad. Most of the control functions are internally managed by the parrot on board hardware and firmware. ARC communicates with it to tell it which direction to go , turn , ect. The project your considering is developing your own parrot drone from some existing RC quad hsrdware.
Does that mean i would have to program it myself if i wanted some other quad to go by itself?
Yes , you can of course utilize ARC to make it easier. You won't be completely starting from beginning and writing code like a arduino , more that 100 tools are built into ARC ti make it easier but custom scripting to make a quadcopter function autonomously will be needed. You can do it though , I'm not trying to deter you , i just want you to have a grasp of what your goals are so you don't get discouraged when you get started.
Hahah it's ok i rather know this, before decidicing if i wanna go that far, i just thought that by simply switching the flight controller by the ez-b would let me use the ar pahnton program aswell as any ground robot programs in the ARC but i guess to make an air robot i would have to make the program myself lol