MDLI. When you just want to test some lua code in a drone (Mini drone lua interpreter)

[raycar5 0]

With this eeprom you can send the drone any lua command via network message in port 123 and it will execute it and send the response as a broadcast in the same port (if there's no response you'll get a bunch of nil)

local m = component.proxy(component.list("modem")())
m.open(123)
local typ
local data
while true do 
while typ ~= "modem_message" do
typ,_,_,_,_,data = computer.pullSignal()
end
local f = assert(load(data))
w,x,y,z = f()
m.broadcast(123, w,x,y,z)
typ = nil
f = nil
end

[MaHuJa 1]

Here's my (old) take on it.

This is loaded onto the eeprom:

https://github.com/MaHuJa/OpenComp-Scripts/blob/master/drone/remote_control.lua

And this is on the controller you have a console for

https://github.com/MaHuJa/OpenComp-Scripts/blob/master/drone/remote_controller.lua

 

Differences of note:

- Syntax errors don't crash the drone

- Runtime errors (including misspelled names) don't crash the drone

- "Unlimited" return values. This is one of the few ways to crash the drone, running it over the oc config value.

- a few "dump table" commands useful for exploring or debugging.

- first return value is always a boolean saying if it ran successfully. In the posted code above, false would instead shut down the drone.

- function com(name) for getting a component. Makes subsequent code, including user input, much less verbose.