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<DIV style="RIGHT: auto" id=yiv0380537450yui_3_7_2_27_1368559880943_1114><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=yiv0380537450yui_3_7_2_27_1368559880943_48>I'm sure all the base level IMU/Nav stuff is taken care of so you would simply be providing waypoints and other higher level commands (I came across an example where they flipped the drone simply by calling a Flip() function!).  There is an open API so presumably you would just be calling that from something like Python.</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><BR>   I totally want in on this. :) Sounds like a blast.<BR></DIV>   5 hours isn't very long for writing a quadcopter control system, though!<BR></DIV>
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<DIV class=yiv0380537450gmail_quote>On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Henri Kuschkowitz <SPAN dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:henri.kuschkowitz@gmail.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:henri.kuschkowitz@gmail.com">henri.kuschkowitz@gmail.com</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
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<DIV style="WORD-WRAP: break-word">haha. that sounds like fun. 
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<DIV>Thanks for sharing.<BR>
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<DIV>On 2013-05-14, at 9:19 AM, Andrew Plumb <<A href="mailto:andrew@plumb.org" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:andrew@plumb.org">andrew@plumb.org</A>> wrote:</DIV><BR></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV style="WORD-WRAP: break-word">Forwarding this on since I know there are at least a few people interested in this sort of thing at ModLab too. 
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<DIV>Andrew.<BR>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: medium" class=yiv0380537450ms__id1840><B>From: </B></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: medium"><A href="mailto:aaron@ottawarobotics.org" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:aaron@ottawarobotics.org">aaron@ottawarobotics.org</A><BR></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: medium" class=yiv0380537450ms__id1843><B>Subject: </B></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: medium"><B>[ORE_bits] Summer of Drones</B><BR></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: medium" class=yiv0380537450ms__id1846><B>Date: </B></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: medium">14 May, 2013 9:14:44 AM EDT<BR></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica; FONT-SIZE: medium" class=yiv0380537450ms__id1849><B>To: </B></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: medium">ORE_bits <<A href="mailto:ORE_bits@yahoogroups.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:ORE_bits@yahoogroups.com">ORE_bits@yahoogroups.com</A>><BR></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV>I just ran across this last night : <A href="http://ottawadrones.com/" rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://ottawadrones.com/</A><BR><BR>They are running a small competition this coming July 6th, described as <BR>"The Summer of Drones is a chance for local hackers to spend a day <BR>playing with Parrot.AR Drones : programmable, flying robots.".<BR><BR>Sounds interesting.<BR><BR>Aaron<BR><BR><BR><BR>------------------------------------<BR><BR>To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:<BR><A href="mailto:ORE_bits-unsubscribe@groups.yahoo.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:ORE_bits-unsubscribe@groups.yahoo.com">ORE_bits-unsubscribe@groups.yahoo.com</A><BR><BR>Yahoo! Groups Links<BR><BR><*> To visit your group on the web, go to:<BR>   <A href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ORE_bits/" rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ORE_bits/</A><BR><BR><*> Your email
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