Game Hack Day NYC
ARdrone python

Notes on attempting to get ARdrones flying in Python:

Links for doing this:

• Python-ardrone on github
• You’ll need pygame too

Stopping the drone from drifting around:

• You need this firmware update
• Which you ftp onto the drone… this might help.

Other stuff we found today:

• http://ardrone.parrot.com/parrot-ar-drone/usa/pilot-academy
• https://projects.ardrone.org/projects
• http://wiki.gamehackday.org/show/Presentations
• http://www.ardrone-flyers.com/wiki/AR.Pro
• A.R.Drone developer guide (downloaded)
• Dancing drones
• AR Drone tag following example, using ar_recog from the at toolkit.

Other potentially useful processing libraries:

• image processing: sudo apt-get install python-imaging
• sound processing:
• kinect in python: http://openkinect.org/wiki/Main_Page