Hi Dominick,
ardrone_brown lets you do that. You just have to "rosservice call
/ardrone/togglecam" to toggle between the two cameras.
You can go to http://code.google.com/p/brown-ros-pkg/ to get more info.
Also, it helps to have the latest firmware on your drone.
Best!
Arjun.



On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Dominick Vanthienen <
dominick.vanthienen@mech.kuleuven.be> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm looking for a AR.Drone driver which can give me the data of the
> downward-facing camera.
> I see that there are two packages: ardrone and ardrone_brown. The latter
> containing a topic for the forward-facing camera.
> Does anyone have experience with adapting one of these to have the
> downward-facing camera data?
> Or, did anyone write some code for it, and is willing to share it?
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> Nick
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