{"id":39,"date":"2012-01-09T02:35:05","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T02:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkorobotics.com\/blog\/?p=39"},"modified":"2012-01-09T02:35:05","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T02:35:05","slug":"ardrone-hacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/arkorobotics.com\/blog\/?p=39","title":{"rendered":"Ardrone Hacking"},"content":{"rendered":"

I did this a while back at NSL.. not really a whole lot of hacking involved really, but I thought I’d share.<\/p>\n

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If you’d like to have ftp access to your ardrone you can follow these step:<\/p>\n

1) Plug in your battery and using your laptop, connect to your Ar.Drone.<\/p>\n

2) Download and open Putty (or whatever you use to telnet), telnet to 192.168.1.1 Port 23<\/p>\n

3)\u00a0??? (This means you’re in, no password)<\/p>\n

4) Profit<\/p>\n

5) Congrats you’re in, but let’s make this easier to hack, let’s get it to give us ftp access to the root. cd into ‘\/etc’<\/p>\n

6) vi inetd.config<\/p>\n

7) Change the first line “21 stream tcp nowait root ftpd ftpd -w \/data\/video” to “21 stream tcp nowait root ftpd ftpd -w \/”<\/p>\n

8) Open your web browser or filezilla and ftp into your Ar.Drone:\u00a0ftp:\/\/192.168.1.1<\/a><\/p>\n

9) Enjoy<\/p>\n

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The Ardrone uses AT commands, using google I found:\u00a0https:\/\/projects.ardrone.org\/boards\/1\/topics\/show\/852<\/a><\/p>\n

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I made a really quick hack while back where I replaced the terrible battery connector they use with a deans connector (http:\/\/www.wsdeans.com\/products\/plugs\/ultra_plug.html<\/a>). So now I can connect the helicopter\u00a0batteries\u00a0I have lying around. It allows me to put in higher mAh batteries for longer flight time, which is always good \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Here’s the hardware teardown specs:<\/p>\n

Processor Board: (Front)<\/p>\n