Question from customer: Do you have CoDrone driver for Raspberry Pi? We want to use Raspberry Pi as the main platform to program the CoDrone.

Yes, CoDrone is compatible with Chromebooks! We currently have a Snap app, which you can download here. You can use that for visual block coding, for younger learners to get exposure to programming.

If it's text-based coding you're looking for and you're using a CoDrone Pro, there's also a way to run Codebender, which is essentially Arduino running in a web browser. It's a workaround, but we've had good luck using it. You can find our tutorial about it here on Basecamp: Using Arduino on Chromebook

What is difference between Pro and Lite and does same battery work in both?

Customer question: Can I preview coding info prior to purchase?

Customer question: I have a question about Camera for CoDrone, is it programmable with Arduino? When I take photos, I can sending the photos to computer for processing?

@hansol Thanks for taking interest. We don't currently have a driver for Raspberry Pi, so that's not something we support, unfortunately. If there's enough demand for it, we may put it on our roadmap.

@hansol Great question! So the drones themselves are the same drone. The only difference is that the Pro includes a buildable transmitter remote, which has an Arduino-compatible main board. That means you're doing full-on text-based coding, whereas the Lite is only the drone. You program that primarily using block-based coding, which you can do using Snap.

So the Pro can do everything the Lite can, it just includes an additional buildable remote for more advanced text programming.

We do all of our programming in Arduino or Snap, at the moment. That said, those are both publicly available programming platforms for free, so you don't necessarily need to own a CoDrone to see what our code looks like. Here are the links in or tutorials for how to install either platform.

Snap

Arduino

@hansol At the moment, you can't do any camera module programming in Arduino. We're currently working on computer vision implementation, which you can get a sneak peek at on our facebook webinars. Currently, you can only use the camera with our partner company's smartphone app: Petrone. This only allows you to stream video to your phone, but there isn't a programming component just yet! We're still working on that, so stay tuned

Hi everyone! I'm really excited to announce that we've just launched our Robolink Community forum. It's still in the early stages, but we'd like everyone to start trying it out and using it. We've had a lot of demand for Robolink kit users to connect with one another to share projects, help one another out, solve one another's problems, and share cool ideas. We're going to be moving folks over from the facebook group to here, so that we can keep better track of what people's needs are.

The great thing about this forum is you can share sample code! Also, we can pin topics and upvote questions, so that as people ask questions, the community will be able to see which questions are the most helpful and correct. Of course, Arnold will regularly be monitoring the forum and providing answers and helping folks, along with other team members.

We hope this is an upgrade from the facebook group, which wasn't ever really intended for handling sharing code. I'd love to hear all the feedback we can get, so please let me know if things aren't working, or if you'd like to provide comments and feedback. I'm looking forward to getting more in touch with our community.

Cheers, and happy building!