EEVV 0 Posted March 1, 2015 Share Posted March 1, 2015 So i want to make a drone, and I did make a basic program but since sangar said it's low level api you need to use different functions than normal. I want to know how to do while true do on a drone, and also get gps position, but not with navigation because that's limited! So please, if anyone can, then help me! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
0 nmarshall23 0 Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 Drones are effectively mobile microcontrollers. That means it's much harder to debug them. How familiar are you with the Robot API? Here is my advice make a robot. be sure to add a screen and keyboard to it. Treat it as a mobile computer. Get used to the robot api. From the title of your post I have a feeling you want to build a drone with an external local positioning system like the one direwolf20 made. ( I refuse to call them GPS because there is no globe in Minecraft. ) Good news, building a positioning system with open computers is far more simpler and has more functionality. I would use 4 wireless access points networked to a computer, that is responsible for calculating the requestors position and relaying that back. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
0 foxzoolm 0 Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 you mean : - place 3 wifi spot - robot calculate triangulation via signal force well... calculation is not for novice ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
0 MaHuJa 1 Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 nmarshall23's solution: + Letting the central computer calculate the position makes sure the clients can be very simple - the code for calculating your position does not have to reside on the device itself. If you're running into eeprom size limits, this may be a viable solution. - Requires the requestor to send a message with enough power to reach all the beacons. If correctly tuned, this is perfectly fine for small areas. The opposite solution: (real gps-like) Set up beacons that regularly send out "I am at XYZ", say once per second, with a lot of power to back their signal. Powering these could then take as much power as you have left over. Even for huge areas, there will be practically no power demand on the batteries of the device getting its position. ( I refuse to call them GPS because there is no globe in Minecraft. ) The word "global" has aquired a second meaning "everywhere" (e.g. global variables) but I guess that is still not appropriate.Perhaps you can find a better name in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_navigation#Hyperbolic_systems Quote Link to post Share on other sites
So i want to make a drone, and I did make a basic program but since sangar said it's low level api you need to use different functions than normal.
I want to know how to do while true do on a drone, and also get gps position, but not with navigation because that's limited!
So please, if anyone can, then help me!
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