webflight-leapmotion

This is a plugin for the browser-based AR.Drone ground control station webflight that lets you fly your drone with a Leap Motion Controller.

This plugin is still in alpa and you can only controll your drone forwards, backwards, left, and right. There is yet no implementation for altitude, flips, or rotation.

Running the software

You will need the ardrone-webflight and webflight-leapmotion repos:

git clone git://github.com/eschnou/ardrone-webflight.git
git clone git://github.com/ludviglindblom/webflight-leapmotion.git

Run npm install for each:

(cd ardrone-webflight && npm install)
(cd webflight-leapmotion && npm install)

Link webflight-leapmotion into webflight's plugins directory:

(cd ardrone-webflight/plugins && ln -s ../../webflight-leapmotion leapmotion)

Copy ardrone-webflight's config.js.example to config.js:

(cd ardrone-webflight && cp config.js.example config.js)

Add "leapmotion" to the plugins array in config.js, so it looks something like this:

var config = {
    plugins: [
      "video-stream"    // Display the video as a native h264 stream decoded in JS
      , "hud"           // Display the artificial horizon, altimeter, compass, etc.
      , "pilot"         // Pilot the drone with the keyboard
      , "leapmotion"    // Pilot the drone with a joystick/leapmotion
    ]
};

module.exports = config;

Start the server

Now you can start the webflight server:

(cd ardrone-webflight && node app.js)

Plugin your leapmotion, point your browser at http://localhost:3000/ and then press t to activate takeoff of your drone, then use hand gestaures to pilot your drone.

Tilt hand forwards = fly drone forwards

Tilt hand backwards = fly drone backwards

Tilt hand left = fly drone left

Til hand right = fly drone right