AR Drone 2.0 DSM2-Wifi bridge

Finished the first version of the code. It flew and worked okay. But after a while of the drone and it was heading towards water. So I had to perform an emergency landing. The drone was not happy with this landing and I broke one of the beams. The drone has since been repaired but I have to work a bit more on the code. Problems is mostly with the AR.Drone documentation which is horrible at best. Code is now on github

Today the orangeRX receiver arrived. I chose a different one then planned because this one was available in the European warehouse. Measuring the signal line gave me a cPPM of 3V, so no level shifting required. The hardware consists of a LD33V, wire and a usb cable. The usb cable powers the orangeRX and the D33V. The LD33V powers the ESP8266.

Starting working on the software first attempt was in lua using the NodeMCU firmware. But that firmware crashed a lot without reason so I switched over to the SDK + Arduino ide. Decoding of the input signal is done now, next is control and after that i can work on the AT commands of the AR Drone.

Gallery updated with hardware picture.