If you wouldn’t know any better this might look like some kind of sorcerer summoning a flying object. Another video of controlling the AR.Drone by making gestures in front of a Kinect. Development was done by Tom Zickel. I have not found any details yet about what tools he used.
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Controlling the AR.Drone with a Kinect controller
It was a matter of time before someone hooked the Kinect controller up to the AR.Drone. Apparently Lonergan Harrington has connected the Kinect controller with the OpenNI framework to the AR.Drone. You can see his experiments in the following video.
AR.Drone with Mini Cam DV80
You can record video with Display Recorder from the on board camera’s as shown in a previous post. But some people attach an external camera to their Drone to get better video quality. In the following video a tiny SD mini cam was fitted to the AR.Drone.
Recording live AR.Drone video with Display Recorder (Cydia)
One of the features that is missing from the FreeFlight software is the ability to take pictures or record the video stream from one of the two onboard cameras. This drone thing was supposed to bring Big Brother surveillance capabilities to the masses, wasn’t it? The video stream for the front and bottom camera is […]