Running an application on the drone

So I've taken up the project of trying to get something running on the AR Drone. The idea is that there will be an program that will be stored within the memory of the Drone that we can run and it hopefully will be able to send commands which the Drone will respond to. As a start, I was given some (non-working) code that would send UDP packets to a specific port on localhost. The thinking here is that since the Drone already received commands over UDP, it would make sense that an application running on the Drone would simply send commands to itself.

I was given a start with a basic client and server code in C++ that needed to be cleaned up and fixed before I could run it. Once I had gotten it running, I ran into different issues with the network buffers and buffer sizes where the commands weren't being sent as a complete string. Anyway things seem to be running relatively well now.

The server is basically an echo server and outputs anything that is sent to it. It appears to be receiving the entire command, as it should. The client is a basic command line program that lets you input specific commands, although only "land" and "takeoff" right now. Once we are back from break I will ftp the files onto the Drone and hopefully they will work!