Quadrotor Workshop: Network sockets

	Starts	Organizer
	Wed 29 May 2013 21:00	skmp, Acinonyx, petros.kon (edit and add yourself)
	Ends	Event Owner
	Wed 29 May 2013 23:00	User:Acinonyx, User:Skmp

Yet another hackerspace.gr event!

Quadrotor

Event coordinator for this Wednesday is: Acinonyx

don't forget to check out the Project Page if you already haven't...

• Bring your laptop*

Aftermath

• Moved forward about sockets with a basic client - server example by acynonix
• Decided to use IP/UDP stack for control signals
• Made network latency tests that gave an average of 16ms over 3 hops in our lan
• Decided to abolish the, now redundant, identifying 2 bits used for serial communication

Seems like we'll be going forward with C/C++ after all. Oh well :) ~ skmp

TODO:

• etc & manolis
  • Commit source code to github
    • Find proper attribution if possible :)
• Study a bit C
  • http://net.pku.edu.cn/~course/cs101/2008/resource/The_C_Programming_Language.pdf (hmm, i wonder the licensing on this ?)
  • http://www2.its.strath.ac.uk/courses/c/
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ioctl
  • https://www.google.gr/search?q=sockets+in+linux
• Read about packet switching and networks
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_switching
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Datagram_Protocol

Pre-Meetup:

• Monday
  • Over irc (or skype if you prefer ?)
  • DECIDE ON TIME PLS ~ http://www.doodle.com/ty2zsstspfuz5ndi

WORKSHOP PLAN:

• Acinonyx
  • More C (study a bit, we can't affort to spend time on the details)
  • IP/TCP/UDP intoduction
  • We want to have a working joystick over UDP by the end of the session, so come prepared !

KEYWORDS:

• PWM, PPM, Servo control
• Arduino usb interface
• beaglebone
• git/github
• Qt
• C