I second the Alfa adapter recommendation
On 12/05/2013 07:07 AM, Philip Polstra wrote: > You can do Xbee via a USB adapter, but I prefer to put it on a cape to > make things lighter, simpler, and cheaper. For my purposes I like the > Alfa wireless adapters because they support monitor mode and packet > injection. For hacking the small adapters tend to have bad > performance since they are low power with small antennas, but if you > can get close enough it might not be an issue. Using the Xbee Pro > adapters gives me 1 mile range with decent power usage. > > How much wind can your drone handle? It is the wind and limited > flight time that pushed me away from a quadcopter and to the Quadshot. > > > On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 7:33 AM, Víctor MV <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Hi Philip, > > A 300 mAh battery is giving us about 10 minutes flight time. We > are thinking about increasing the capacity of the battery. > Personally i would like to reach 30 minutes of flight time. We are > evaluating different brushless combinations of brushless > motors/propellers/batteries. > > For now wireless communication is through the USB Host port. We're > using this adapter > <http://www.edimax.com/en/produce_detail.php?pd_id=347&pl1_id=1> > but there're other choices. We haven't tried interfacing it with > Xbee but if there's a USB adapter it should be pretty straighforward. > > Regarding how similar is with the BBB, well as much as the BB to > the BBB i guess. Our design is BB-based. > > You suggestion with The Deck > > <http://ppolstra.blogspot.it/2012/09/introducing-deck-complete-pentesting.html> > seems really interesting. > > El jueves, 5 de diciembre de 2013 14:05:43 UTC+1, Philip Polstra > escribió: > > What kind of flight time, etc. are you getting with this? How > good is the wifi? Can you do Xbee? How similar to the BBB is > your device? Depending on the answers to these questions your > device might be a good candidate to run The Deck, my > penetration testing distribution. Your drone might be a good > supplement to my existing drone based on the quadshot. > > On Dec 5, 2013 3:06 AM, "Víctor MV" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear all, > > For the last year I've working in a project to make a > *palm-size drone*. I wanted to come up with a robot that > included a _general purpose OS_, enough processing power > to run some basic CV algorithms and making it _as low cost > as possible_. I initially started using the OMAP-L138 but > soon after that i got in touch with the BeagleBone and its > incredible capabilities. This together with the > availability of the hardware documentation made me change > my mind and start over again. The experience has been > amazing and after a year working with the BeagleBone i can > just say _thanks to the BeagleBoard guys and to the > community_ as well. I believe something outstanding has > been built around this little board. Something that > definitely can provide us, new engineers the chance to > create a new world of devices. > > This journey brought me to Erle Robotics > <http://erlerobot.com/>, a startup launched with the aim > of putting this little robot out there in the market. Our > latest revision includes _17 sensors _(GPS, altimeters, > range-finders,...), capabilities of using different > _wireless technologies_ (Bluetooth, WiFi). Furthermore the > device has already been interfaced with cameras and > microphones. Much progress has been done however we still > believe there's much to do thereby i would like to ask you > to share with me any thoughts you might have regarding > this project. > > > <https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-3jgw6kX8b4w/UqA-fkaLI7I/AAAAAAAAAWs/mviiWtKLED0/s1600/20131202_214742.jpg> > > > > You can read more about us at http://erlerobot.com. > > I will be looking forward to get your feedback. > Best wishes, > > Víctor. > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to > the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails > from it, send an email to [email protected]. > > For more options, visit > https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, > send an email to [email protected] > <mailto:beagleboard%[email protected]>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. 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