Drift Telemetry Stream (DTS)

This repo contains libraries that can be used to configure and connect to a drone via the MAVSDK. This library will automate many complicated operations and will provide a standard interface for other DRIFT components.

Python Bindings

This project contains python bindings that allow python code to interact with drones via the MAVSDK. It is recommended to create and distribute a so-called 'source distribution', which contains the files necessary for building a 'wheel'. Wheels contain the final built binaries/metadata that pip can then install. The problem with wheels is that they are built for a specific version and architecture, so it is better to work with source distributions as developers can build it themselves on their own machine.

To generate these distributions, do the following:

1. Ensure python and pip are installed on your system
2. Create a virtual environment: python -m venv venv/
3. Activate the virtual environment: source venv/bin/active
4. Install the build package: pip install build
5. Invoke the build package: python -m build
6. Results are in dist/ directory. The .tar.gz is the source distribution and can be freely shared. The .whl is the wheel file built for your system, and can be installed in the next step.
7. Install the package via pip: pip install [NAME].whl to install the prebuilt wheel. For developers that were given the source distribution, they can run the same command, but specify the .tar.gz file instead of the .whl file.