Ground Station

This project is the ground station software in development to be used with my autonomous drones. It's built using Electron and is meant to comunicate with a drone over a RF link through a virtual serial port. This is a refactor of a set of scripts used during the 2017 MOSTRATEC.

⚠️ Keep in mind this is an experimental software and this repo is meant mostly as a logbook ⚠️

Usage

At the moment this software has only been tested on macOS, however it should work on other platforms. To run you simply need to clone this repo then run:

npm install
npm start

And the application should start in fullscreen right away.

Serial protocol and drone firmware

Coming soon

Science fairs and other prizes

This software hasn't been presented at any science fair, however its old version (together with the drone) already won:

2nd place in Electrical Engineering @ MOSTRATEC 2017

The first public demo will be at FEBRACE 2018, which will happen from 13 Mar - 15 Mar.

Licensing

This project is open source as a means of paying forward to the helpful software community. However, bear in mind this software is still used for actively competing at science fairs, so please don't use it if competing at the same fair as me. If in doubt, just open an issue and I'll review it as soon as possible. Derivative work is fair game (e.g. adapting the software to work with an autonomous car), however you must credit the author.

The code is licensed under GNU GPL v3, therefore:

You have permission to:

Use it in commercial work
Distribute it
Modify it
Use it in patented work
Use it privately

However, you must:

Disclose your work's source code
Provide the license and copyright notice
Use the same license
State any changes you've made

phckopper/GroundStation