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Open-Source Firmware For Your Toy Drone
An anonymous reader writes: Since now you're going to either register your drone or have to be flying your [small drone] indoors anyway in the USA, you might as well celebrate the one freedom you still have: the freedom to re-flash the firmware with open source! The Eachine H8 is a typical-looking mini-quadcopter of the kind that sell for under $20. Inside, the whole show is powered by an ARM Cortex-M3 processor, with the programming pins easily visible. Who could resist? Garagedrone takes you through a step-by-step guide to re-flashing the device with a custom firmware to enable acrobatic mode, or simply to tweak the throttle-to-gyro mapping for the quad. The firmware author silverxxx from RCGroups.com even got the code up on GitHub if you're interested in taking a peek. Next step, Skynet!
You may not use it without permission. Basically, they've learned from the mistake they've made by granting individual citizens private property rights and are not going to make the same mistake again.
The above class of toy drone weighs 20 grams or so.
In order to be required to register under the proposed new regulations, the limit is 250g.
Mostly these are >>$100, not $20.
#1: This mindset of "fuck the regulators! I'll just open source it and say "nanny-nanny boo boo" didn't work out so hot for Cody Wilson/Defcad. If the goal was to show how easily the wire inside a Radioshack Police Scanner can be cut with a pair of dykes: congratulations on the woosh. Please do continue pointing out the obvious/making bypassing compliance measures that much more difficult.
#2: Vehicle autonomy can be thought of in layers of abstraction with vehicle inverse kinematics at a very very low level. The autonomy requirement has sensors and actuators, and built on top of these two foundation layers is the very challenging issue of "grey matter" which decides what to do with the sensor information to the actuators.
#3: Cool guide. Anytime someone takes a cheap Amazon/eBay toy made in china and reflashes the firmware through JTAG etc. that's alright with me!
What confuses me is how this got on Slashdot before Hackaday?
Obviously it shows my age to say this, but Skynet is more than just a slashdot meme. And it doesn't make sense at all here except that it has the word "sky" in it. Why do we keep coming to this website again?
Or you could start with one of the many open source drone firmwares that run on a variety of platforms and can power anything from a car or boat all the way to a octacopter, or a variety of strange propeller configurations.
The registration is illegal per Sec. 336 and currently facing multiple legal challenges. If you're registering, you're just consenting to their rules and giving them a vote of confidence to use against the rest of the hobby. Even the AMA is telling members to hold off unless it survives all of the challenges.
The premise of the whole post is wrong; that people will register their drones is at best optimistic.
You sound European.
No way am I going to register. Just another database to get hacked. Just another bullshit tax.
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So cool -- I want to know more. Is anybody is selling these preflashed? Please send them our way! I would love to find out if they are good candidate for Free Software Foundation's Respect Your Freedom (RYF) computer hardware certification. Full disclosure I work with the FSF's licensing team. Josh
look upmthevweight / height requirements for registration. Toy drones dont even need to be registered. geeze.... Youd need to pay a lot more than the $30 - $200 toys to even qualify although some of the chinese Walkera and Syma etc are getting close price wise to clouding the toy vs enthusiast/prof videographer-cartographer levels.
"Computers are a lot like Air Conditioners" "They both work great until you start opening Windows"
I'd love to have Open Source firmware for my DJI P3, the hardware is really nice, but the restrictions and auto upload and forced updates by DJI are starting to annoy me.
Sure, they're the biggest target and they'll do whatever the FAA asks to keep their market share.
"Nice business there DJI, it'd be a shame if anything happened to it"
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Full disclosure I work with the FSF's licensing team.
When Stallman runs out of toe-jam, does he ask you to remove your socks and share your own?
how easily the wire inside a Radioshack Police Scanner can be cut with a pair of dykes
is it really worth the bother of getting two cooperative dykes to participate in this dastardly scheme?
I doubt the run-of-the-mill dyke totes around toenail clippers or a similar tool, so how exactly are they going to cut through the wire, with their teeth?
I'd think a sharp set of sidecutters would work just as well, if not better.
You only need to register drones over .55 lbs. These are not the toy drones you buy for toys. These are rather large and expensive.
Just more typical click bait. Good modding /.
please dont be cruel ...........
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Why are the flash instructions for Windows only? I have a few friends that get into drones, but they all use Linux, as do I. They tend to find it annoying that they have to keep an old Windows laptop around just to flash firmwares. I really hope it's also possible to flash under Linux.
This could be a really good way to map wireless networks: https://wigle.net/