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In the original Macross series, the SDF-1 doesn’t set out to fight anyone. It launches because an alien fleet is already on its way and there is no other choice. The ship is barely understood, its fold drive untested, its crew a mix of civilians and soldiers who never signed up for an interstellar...
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If you’ve seen Pacific Rim, you know the core idea behind a Jaeger: a pilot doesn’t push buttons to make the giant robot punch — they punch, and the robot punches with them. The machine reads the pilot’s body and mirrors it. That’s the exact idea behind the first control mode I built for the...
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In Part 1 we talked about why this project exists and what hardware it runs on, and in Part 2 we reverse-engineered the UDP protocol that lets an M5Stack AtomS3 talk to a cheap WiFi toy drone. Before going further into flight control and gamepad support, it’s worth stopping to look at how the...
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In Part 1 we introduced the project: a custom WiFi flight controller for Eachine E88/E58 toy drones running on an M5Stack AtomS3. But before writing a single line of firmware, there was a much bigger problem to solve — nobody publishes the protocol these drones speak. No SDK, no documentation, no...
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Toy drones are everywhere. You can pick up an Eachine E88 or E58 for under $30, fly it around your living room, and have a decent time. But what happens when the official app stops working, the manufacturer disappears, or you simply want to understand what’s actually happening between your phone...
Adam Nash
Every time I go to the CODE Conference, I learn something new. There is something about watching some of the most prominent technology executives and founders responding to questions from talented journalists that gets me thinking. Four years ago, I wrote about the transition technology CEOs...
Andrew Maynard
This holiday season, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is estimating that over one million small “Unmanned Aerial Systems” (sUAS’s) – drones, to the rest of us – will be sold to consumers. But as hordes of novice pilots take to the air, just how safe are these small bundles of metal,...