[Lab] [ORE_bits] Summer of Drones

[Richard Wiens]

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.
 
The real trick will be coming up with a creative thing to do with the drone...I'm thinking beer delivery but payload capacity may be an issue.
 
Richard


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   I totally want in on this. :) Sounds like a blast.
   5 hours isn't very long for writing a quadcopter control system, though!




On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Henri Kuschkowitz <henri.kuschkowitz at gmail.com> wrote:

haha. that sounds like fun. 
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>Thanks for sharing.
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>On 2013-05-14, at 9:19 AM, Andrew Plumb <andrew at plumb.org> wrote:
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>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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>>Andrew.
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>>From: aaron at ottawarobotics.org
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>>>Subject: [ORE_bits] Summer of Drones
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>>>Date: 14 May, 2013 9:14:44 AM EDT
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>>>To: ORE_bits <ORE_bits at yahoogroups.com>
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>>>Reply-To: ORE_bits at yahoogroups.com
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>>>I just ran across this last night : http://ottawadrones.com/
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>>>They are running a small competition this coming July 6th, described as 
>>>"The Summer of Drones is a chance for local hackers to spend a day 
>>>playing with Parrot.AR Drones : programmable, flying robots.".
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>>>Sounds interesting.
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>>>Aaron
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