Parrot A.R. Drone iPhone Controlled Quadricopter
Today, Parrot unveiled its A.R. Drone at CES 2010, a helicopter that can be controlled using an iPhone or an iPod Touch, it works with its on-board WiFi system and two video cameras embedded, one in front and one below the cockpit. It is very easy to pilot the A.R. Drone by tilting your iPhone slightly, when you release it, it stabilizes right away. To turn you just need to tilt the phone on the left or on the right. I tried it a month ago and the piloting is extremely accurate and easy to learn. See the video ( I am not in the video).
The on-board Linux-based computer allows targets detection and integration of augmented reality. Software developpers will be able to create gaming applications via the open source development platform www.ardrone.org
Parrot AR Drone SDK for Microsoft .Net and Windows
Here is some of the first footage of the Parrot AR Drone SDK that Thomas, Julien and myself have been working on for several weeks.
The library has support for WPF and Windows Forms development.
It is a control class written in C# but will support VB.Net too. The core is just a wrapper around the original Win32 code supplied with the Drone.
Currently video is supported along with saving frames and movie clips.
We were going to release this to the world a while ago, but Parrot asked us to wait until they can revise the license to allow for 3rd party SDK tools.
So far no word yet, but if we all ask them nicely... Who knows?
[A big thank you to Thomas and Julien - they took my rather flaky first design and transformed it into something very special.
The only thing it doesn't do is make tea - that's going to be in SP1 ;-)]
You can now download all the source code from here:
http://www.stephenhobley.com/blog/201...
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