node-ar-drone

Getting started

• Turn on your 2.0 AR Drone (1.0 is not supported)
• Join your drone's wifi network with your computer
• Write your first script, lookaround.js:

var drone = require('ar-drone').createClient();
drone.connect(function(err) {
  if (err) throw err;

  drone.sequence()
    .takeoff(5)
    .up(3, 0.2)
    .turn(5, 0.5)
    .start(function() {
      console.log('That was cool, time to land again!');

      drone.stop();
      drone.land();
    });
});

If everything went according to plan, executing node lookaround.js should cause your drone to take off, rise for 3 seconds, turn clockwise for 5 seconds and then land again.

API

drone.takeoff()

Initates takeoff. Has no effect if the drone is already taking off or in the air.

drone.land()

Initates landing. Has no effect if the drone is already landing or on the ground.

drone.left(speed)

drone.right(speed)

drone.front(speed)

drone.back(speed)

drone.up(speed)

drone.down(speed)

Initiates drone movement in the given direction where speed is a number from 0 to 1 (e.g. 0.5). The drone will keep the movement until it is being told to do something else.

Opposite directions cannot be applied at the same time and will overwrite each other.

Todo

• More docs
• Remaining sensor data
• Video streaming to browser
• Object tracking
• Improve code quality
• Rethink event names