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!

Hey everyone! I'm Wes, VP, UX & Design at Robolink. I've been part of the team since the beginning, but joined on full-time a couple years ago. I set this forum up, so any technical questions about the forum itself, you can ask me. I'm also working on product user experience at Robolink, so if you have ideas or feedback about how we can improve the usability, I'm all ears!

I'm Chicago born and raised, went to undergrad in San Diego. I love biking, climbing, the outdoors, going around the world, and cooking a mean stir fry.

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I have a suggestion of feature which would make this even greater.
maybe two ideas ...

1. Anti collision would be nice. Some sort of radar, rotating or fixed that can check the surrounding preventing the drone from crashing into walls.
2. A simple form of GPS. Could be "local location system"-transmitter you put in the room and triangulate the signal. This way you could keep track of the drone in a room.

Hi,

I got the Pro version and tried to use printPressure. I look at the code-behind in the cpp or if it was .h file of CoDrone and found a comment //Not Working. Has this been fixed?

How can I get hold of Snap?

Hello @magnus, thanks for the suggestion! Folks have definitely requested this, and it's something we're trying to figure out how to do at an affordable price. Both 1 and 2 are great ideas. In order to keep it within an affordable price for teachers and students, it may take some time and clever engineering, but rest assured we've got that goal in mind. Thanks!

@magnus Sure thing, you can get a hold of Snap here: Installing CoDrone Snap

Hey there @magnus, we're currently making updates to the CoDrone library, so there are a few rough edges, such as that comment. The specifics, I believe @arnold_robolink will be able to answer more specifically. But essentially, within the next month, we should have a pretty significant update to the library with better function names and the ability to read sensor data.

We use the drones in a capstone project with our seniors. Team of 3 use the processing IDE C++ text based programming environment. We have had them for a year. Love to connect with others for good project-based lesson ideas. We are located in Charleston, SC in a private school.

Welcome to the community @dbergman! Doug is an awesome CS instructor who even video called us in to chat with his class about learning STEM and the importance of entrepreneurship. Definitely get in touch with him for ideas about in-school use and cool ideas.