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Preface

• RIDDIM is an acronym for Remote Interactive Digital Drone Interface Mashup . In this project its all about testing diffrent approaches to pilot the MikroKopter with Human Interface Devices rather than the normal RC-Remote.

  Contact the LiGi for further questions.

Tested Devices

Saitek X-52

• Pro:
  • LCD-Display
  • lots of buttons/axis
• Contra:
  • Huge

Saitek AV8R-01

• Pro:
  • pricing
  • medium size / weight
• Contra:
  • handling

3DConnexion SpaceNavigator Personal

• Pro:
  • very small
  • lots of axis in one hand
  • very intuitive
• Contra:
  • few buttons (2)
  • heavy for its size

Pictures

SpaceMouse with openwrt router

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Saitek X-52 with mount

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Videos

Starting with Keyswitch

• Vimeo(5423380)

= Public Riddim controlled SpaceMouse flying @Sublab=

• Vimeo(1291676)

Test of the !JoystickMount (!BackPack)

• http://www.rcmovie.de/video/a6dff75bda4fd1ee9fe0/Neues-am-Sonntag-in-Leipzig

Second Outdoor Flight

• http://www.rcmovie.de/video/afe32970749f5e2bcdc6/Sonntagsausflug-mikrokopter

Hardware Setup

• You need:

  • - 1x MikroKopter with ["Bluetooth"] or ZigBee

  • - 1x Supported input Device
  • - 1x Hardware with the following minimum requirements:

    • -> running linux

    • -> usb

    • -> bluetooth ( later on bluetooth or wlan will be supportet )

    • In the author's setup this will be the notebook ( it's better for debug output ) at stage 1 and one Asus WL500g deluxe running OpenWrt in stage 2.

Compile

• $> make

Run

• $> ./riddim [config-file]

ChangeLog

• 0.4 - support for socat ( makes usage of ["Bluetooth"] or ZigBee easy )

• 0.3 - support for SpaceMouse

• 0.2 - first version with possibility to fly ( based on FC0.68b commands )
• 0.1 - initial release with basic functions and proof of concept code ( Scanning for blueooth devices / read joystick / communicate to MK / ..)

Licence

• http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/de/ (Creative Commons / Non Commercial / Share Alike)

• Additionally to this licence it is not allowed to use this software in any violent manner. This explicitly includes that lethal weapon owning "People" (e.g. army & police) are not allowed to use this project

Credits

• Holger & Ingo for the MikroKopter Project

• eduard -- - at - -- hasenleithner.at for the linux x-52 lib
• xm for help with the !OpenWRT makefile
  • .

Discussion

• http://forum.mikrokopter.de/topic-2554.html

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