Flying a drone with twitter, bananas & Web APIs

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Five concrete hacks that control a cheap drone with browser JavaScript: reverse‑engineers a Wi‑Fi SG900S with Wireshark and UDP, then switches to Parrot Mambo Mini over BLE using the Web Bluetooth drone library; maps phone accelerometer via the Sensors API to mimic tilt; turns bananas into keyboard triggers with a Makey Makey (works reliably); replaces Leap Motion with webcam hand‑pose ML to fly by gestures; a planned Twitter control is dropped because the Twitter API becomes too expensive.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 2:16Accidental drone purchase
3. 5:06Drone control with JavaScript
4. 10:09Sensors API for movement
5. 13:43Drone with banana
6. 17:55Hand gestures via Leap Motion
7. 24:55Twitter drone control
8. 25:41Play and experimentation

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