HeliControl
1.0
HeliControl is a small nifty USB gadget, which can be used to steer miniature helicopters and quadcopters.
helicontrol is being developed at the Joint Robotics Lab (JRL) at Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany http://www.jrl.cs.uni-frankfurt.de
- Author:
- Jens-Michael Siegl <siegl@cs.uni-frankfurt.de>
Joachim Bremer <bremer@cs.uni-frankfurt.de>
Matthias Heinz <mheinz@cs.uni-frankfurt.de>
Holger Friedrich <holger.friedrich@vsi.cs.uni-frankfurt.de> (project maintainer)
HeliControl uses infrared diodes to steer the following devices:
- Silverlit PicooZ
- Silverlit Challenger
- Silverlit Uranus
- Silverlit TandemZ-1
- Silverlit i-Bird (checksum not supported)
- Alien Air Flying Saucer
HeliControl consists of three independent parts:
- helicontrol USB device: available as schematic and PCB layout
- helicontrol firmware: firmware for the helicontrol device
- libhelicontrol (this software): a C/C++ API to control helicopters
This page describes libhelicontrol API, see README and INSTALL for more information about building and installing the software.
You need to build your own helicontrol USB device? You are looking for the most recent release of this software?
See download section at http://www.jrl.cs.uni-frankfurt.de/wiki/HeliControl
Codes is highly portable, i.e. tested under the following platforms:
- Linux
- Debian sid/unstable x86, gcc-4.3.2 (firmware: binutils 2.18, avr-libc 1.6.2.cvs20080610))
- Debian sid/unstable x86_64, gcc-4.3.2 (firmware: binutils 2.18, avr-libc 1.6.2.cvs20080610))
- SuSE Linux 10.3 x86, gcc-4.2.1 (firmware: binutils 2.17, avr-libc 1.4.5)
- SuSE Linux 10.3 i586, gcc-4.2.1
- Fedora Core 8, gcc-4.1.2
- Mac OS X
- 10.4 (Tiger), gcc 4.0.1, (firmware: avr-gcc 4.2.0 , binutils 2.17, avr-libc 1.4.8)
- Windows Vista
- MS Visual Studio 2008, (firmware: WinAVR-20071124rc3 containing avr-gcc 4.3.2)
An important point is to use system independent types (provided by types.h).
To report Bugs:
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