[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 22:39:55 +0200

Or maybe wiki.meego.com if it's a page marked under
sth like MeeGo Summit Fi / hack3r team plans..?

BR,
Topi

2011/1/26 Topi Santakivi <topi.santakivi@xxxxxxxxx>:
> 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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