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Hi Guys,

I tumbled on a problem last night that made me think the whole day before writing this in forums.

What I am referring to is: Pure Wi-Fi control of Arducopter. Currently, the system supports Transmission and Reception via RC Txm/Rx. The Arducopter receives the PPM (many PWM) signals from Transmitter to control the quad. Sounds easy, isn't it?

Challenging thoughts

Now, Imagine, I am in an area of many routers, I have no Xbee, just my computer to control the quad and get back the video stream of data and position from quad. This is possible with AR.Drone.

1. Is there some provision with Arducopter to already do this?

2. If this can be made possible (which I suppose) we can, how do we do this? RaspBerry PI an option? But how do I convert to PWM signals to the Arducopter, the commands from my computer?

3. Why hasn't the open source given the implementation of this yet. Is it too hard? Has any one thought on these lines?

Please try to give as much explanation as possible. Thanks!