To kill a working drone: flying a drone with twitter, bananas & Web APIs
summary
Cheap SG900s takes four months to arrive and a Parrot Mambo Mini becomes the real testbed; shipped small accessories and Bluetooth support are used to build droneConnectionManagement.js and droneControl atop a community drone.js fork by peter o'chinessy. Demos use the Sensors API, Leap Motion and Web Bluetooth to accept an accelerometer phone, hand gestures, a banana controller and Twitter hashtags; live demos are flaky (pairing fails repeatedly) but recorded videos show success, and a 15,000 km trip plus legal 50 km no‑fly limits shape the project.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction and background
- 2:34Accidental drone purchase
- 4:21Inspiration for the project
- 5:53Hacking the drone
- 8:20Bluetooth low energy
- 10:27Game development and the web
- 12:37Controlling drones with JS
- 15:44Accelerometer drone control
- 18:59Leap motion hand control
- 27:12Tech scene in South Africa
- 29:35Flying drones with fruit
- 40:04Conclusion and takeaways
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