[meego-network-fi] Re: Developing an ARDrone simulator for Meegathon

  • From: Topi Santakivi <topi.santakivi@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: meego-network-fi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 22:28:39 +0200

Good idea :)

I'll sketch up the ideas into a concrete documentation so we'll have
something to start with.

We could e.g. use one of these:

http://www.ubernote.com/webnote/pages/signup.aspx
http://notebook.zoho.com/
http://luminotes.com/

BR,
Topi

2011/1/26 Jarkko Moilanen <jarkko.moilanen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> 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.com
> is not the best place. Suggestions?
>
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