Pilot the AR.Drone 2.0 directly from your browser. Extend the application with plugins to add features such as video recording, autonomous flight, face recognition, and more.

Developed in Node.JS, built on top of the ar-drone library. You can easily extend webflight through plugins. It makes it a very friendly environment to quickly build and experiment with your drone.

This branch is the development branch, there are no packaged release yet.

If you encounter an issue; please submit it to the issue tracker!

Built-in plugins

video-png stream the video to the browser through static image loading, works great in every browser.
hud to visualize a head-up display with artificial horizon, compass, altimeter, etc.
pilot to control the drone remotely using the keyboard

Installation

WebFlight requires a recent nodejs (built and tested with node > 0.10) as well as npm and bower for dependency management.

git clone git@github.com:eschnou/ardrone-webflight
cd ardrone-webflight
npm install
bower install

Usage

Copy the config.js.sample to config.js and edit to select your plugins
Connect to the drone's wifi
Run node app.js
Point your browser to http://localhost:3000/

If you have enabled the pilot plugin, you can fly the drone with the following keys. Yes, these are azerty bindings :-) If you need qwerty ones, just hack the plugin. I'll need to find a way to provide custome configuration etc.

Use Z, S, Q, D to move front, back and sideways. Use your cursors to go up/down or turn clockwise/counter clockwise. Use t to takeoff and l for landing.

Adding your own plugin

There is no tutorial yet, in the meanwhile, just have a look at the built in plugins, it is faily straightforward.

I would like to maintain a list of user plugins. If you hack something, please let me know and I'll add you to the list.

Thanks

This work is based on the integration of nodecopter-cockpit and drone-browser, refactored in a plugin architecture. Special thanks to @felixge for his node-ar-drone library which pushed me into buying a drone and become crazy about these little flying robots!

License

The MIT License

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