[meego-network-fi] Re: Developing an ARDrone simulator for Meegathon
- From: Jarkko Moilanen <jarkko.moilanen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: meego-network-fi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 21:18:29 +0200
2011/1/26 Timo Härkönen <timop.harkonen@xxxxxxxxx>
> o/
>
> 2011/1/26 Topi Santakivi <topi.santakivi@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Hi all and greetings from the hack3r team!
>>
>> As you know, we've got a flying theme in the Meegathon during the summit.
>>
>> Because participants are allowed to start developing their jewels before
>> the
>> actual 24-hour Meegathon and most of them don't own an ARDrone, there
>> certainly is a need to develop a simulator for ARDrone.
>>
>> The idea is to make a desktop app with Qt that responds to commands sent
>> from MARDrone, and the über-idea is to hook that up with some OpenGL code
>> to create a virtual drone that can be controlled from an N900.
>>
>> I've started planning the simulator's architecture and sketching some
>> code.
>> While it's fun that i get to do everything myself, it would be even more
>> fun
>> if someone else is interested to participate!:)
>>
>> So, if you like to be part of creating an ARDrone simulator, contact me
>> please.
>> The code can be found in Gitorious (currently an initial skeleton):
>>
>> http://gitorious.org/ardrone-simulator
>>
>> BR,
>> Topi
>>
>>
> Cool. I could contribute something to it. But first - to make collaboration
> easier we should setup some wiki page or add docs to the sources describing
> the functionality, design, features, etc. For example I don't know pretty
> much anything about the drone's commands, protocols, etc. So if someone's
> already studied those I'd like to see those documented..
>
> -Timo
>
Sounds like a plan :) Now we need to choose platform. Perhaps
wiki.meego.comis not the best place. Suggestions?
--
---------------
Community Manager (MNFI, Meego Network Finland)
Organizer (TMN, Tampere Meego Network)
Email: jarkko dot moilanen at meegonetwork dot fi
Location: Tampere, Finland
More info: http://meegonetwork.fi
Discussions: irc.freenode.net#meego-fi
http://meego.ajatukseni.net/
Other related posts:
