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https://github.com/fiveisprime/office-drone

Webflight for the Modulus office drone.
https://github.com/fiveisprime/office-drone

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Webflight for the Modulus office drone.

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# ardrone-webflight



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.

It makes it a very friendly environment to quickly build and experiment with your drone

(e.g. during a [nodecopter](http://nodecopter.com) event).



If you encounter an issue; please submit it to the issue tracker! You can also catch

up with me (eschnou) on twitter or on #freenode (channel #nodecopter).



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



## Built-in plugins



* **[video-png](plugins/video-png/)** stream the video to the browser through static image loading,

    works great in every browser. Requires ffmpeg installed on your system.



* **[video-stream](plugins/video-stream/)** use [node-dronestream](https://github.com/bkw/node-dronestream) to stream the raw h264 video

feed via webscokets and rendering in Javascript !!! Need a modern browser and CPU.



* **[hud](plugins/hud/)** to visualize a head-up display with artificial horizon, compass,

    altimeter, etc. Based on [nodecopter-cockpit](https://github.com/bkw/nodecopter-cockpit)



* **[pilot](plugins/pilot)** to control the drone remotely using the keyboard. Based on [drone-browser](https://github.com/functino/drone-browser).



* **[battery](plugins/battery)** display a battery widget in the top bar.



* **[blackbox](plugins/blackbox)** records all mission data (raw video, navdata, etc.) on the disk.



* **[replay](plugins/replay)** replays a mission by injecting the data at the client level. Makes it a very

friendly tool to code/test/debug when you can't fly. **You need to use video-png for video, not compatible with video-stream yet.**



## Other plugins



Feel free to add your plugins in this list by editing this page.



* **[copterface](https://github.com/eschnou/webflight-copterface)** detect faces and track them by rotating the drone. 

A port of the [copterface](https://github.com/paulhayes/copterface) project to the webflight environment.



* **[traffic](https://github.com/wiseman/webflight-traffic)** displays live Air traffic from ADS-B data as an augmented reality overlay.



* **[gamepad](https://github.com/wiseman/webflight-gamepad)** controls the drone with a gamepad.



* **[tracker](https://github.com/bkw/webflight-tracker)** track pixels on the videostream by clicking on them.



## Install



WebFlight requires a recent nodejs (built and tested with node > 0.10) as well as

[npm](https://npmjs.org/) and [bower](http://bower.io/) for dependency management.



In order to use the video-png plugin, you also need ffmpeg installed on your system.



```

git clone https://github.com/eschnou/ardrone-webflight.git

cd ardrone-webflight

npm install

bower install

```



## Usage



1. Copy the config.js.sample to config.js and edit to select your plugins

2. Connect to the drone's wifi

3. Run `node app.js`

4. Point your browser to http://localhost:3000/



### Controlling the drone



If you have enabled the **pilot** plugin, you can fly the drone with the following keys. You can define your keyboard in the 

config file. In the plugin, `azerty` and `qwerty` keyboards are defined.  Feel free to define others.



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.



Use the `tab` key to toggle acceleration speed slow/fast.



Use the `f` key to perform a flip in the current direction of movement.



Use the `c` key to switch the video feed between front/bottom camera.



### Record a mission



Just press the `r` to start recording. A popup alers you when the recording starts. Press `r` again to stop. Each mission

is bundled in its own folder.



## 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.



## Thanks



This work is based on the integration of [nodecopter-cockpit](https://github.com/bkw/nodecopter-cockpit)

and [drone-browser](https://github.com/functino/drone-browser), refactored in a plugin architecture.

Thanks to [@bkw](https://github.com/bkw/) and [@functino](https://github.com/functino) for sharing! Also

a big thank you to [@felixge](https://github.com/felixge) for his [node-ar-drone](https://github.com/felixge/node-ar-drone) library

which pushed me into buying a drone and become crazy about these little flying robots!



## License



The MIT License



Copyright (c) 2013 by the AUTHORS



Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy

of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal

in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights

to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell

copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is

furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:



The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in

all copies or substantial portions of the Software.



THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR

IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,

FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE

AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER

LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,

OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN

THE SOFTWARE.