JavaScript, Node, and DronesThe Story of NodeCopter

Romain Huet Co-Founder & CTO of Jolicloud @romainhuet

Paris Tech Talks — May 6th, 2013

Ever wanted to play with drones?

With JavaScript?

Ever wanted to play with drones?

JavaScript as the sole, unique language to build everything.

“Any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be

written in JavaScript.”

— Jeff Atwood, 2007

JavaScript Manifest Destiny: Whatever program can be written in JavaScript eventually WILL be written in JavaScript. (And all programs can.)

— Isaac Z. Schlueter, 2012

“Any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be

written in JavaScript.”

— Jeff Atwood, 2007

npm install ar-drone

@felixge

NodeCopter.com

NodeCopter BERLIN - October 5, 2012Google+: Jan Marsch

NodeCopter BERLIN - October 5, 2012Google+: Jan Marsch

NodeCopter BERLIN - October 5, 2012Google+: Jan Marsch

NodeCopter Dublin - October 20, 2012Flickr: a_l_a_n

NodeCopter Dublin - October 20, 2012Flickr: a_l_a_n

NodeCopter Dublin - October 20, 2012Flickr: a_l_a_n

Mini-NodeCopter Events All Over the world

San Francisco Seattle

London Bath

drone.takeoff();

Shellicopter™!

But also godrone in Go, also by @felixge!

Infinite possibilities to explore

Voice, Wiimote, Raspberry Pi, Arduino, johnny-five…

JavaScript, Node… and beyond!

# setup fd 3 as udp connection to droneexec 3<>/dev/udp/192.168.1.1/5556# takeoffecho -e "AT*REF=1,512\r" >&3# landingecho -e "AT*REF=2,0\r" >&3

Thank you!

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