Introduction

Zeppelin is a web interface/control system for the Parrot AR.Drone 2.0.

AR.Drone 2.0 Hardware

The AR.Drone 2.0 runs the Linux 2.8.32 kernel, and has a busybox shell which is accessible via telnet. Anonymous FTP is also available.

Controller

Component	Part/Spec
CPU	1GHz 32bit ARM Cortex A8
Video Coprocessor	800MHz DSP TMS320DMC64x
RAM	1GB DDR2 RAM @ 200MHz
USB	2.0
Wireless	(Atheros?) Wireless B/G/N Chipset

Sensors

• 3 axis gyroscope 2000°/second precision
• 3 axis accelerometer +-50mg precision
• 3 axis magnetometer 6° precision
• Pressure sensor +/- 10 Pa precision
• Ultrasound sensors for ground altitude measurement
• 60fps vertical QVGA camera for ground speed measurement

Other Hardware

• HD Camera: 720p 30 FPS with 92° diagonal wide-angle lens
• GPIO Interface (used for communicating with sensor/flight board)

More information can be found here

Onboard Serial

The main board has an onboard serial connection, which is populated by a 0.1" pitch pin connector. The port expects at least 3.3V to pickup a signal. The port can be accessed via /dev/tty03. More information can be found here.

Linux Environment

See this page.

Software/Hardware Extensions

Here's just some thoughts for extending functionality.

GPS

Possible via the onboard USB 2.0 port.

3G GSM/4G LTE Modem

Possible via the onboard USB 2.0 port.