Programming flying robots with JavaScript

Presentation given with Robin Mehner at NEXT 2013. Included lots of live coding, will link to video once available.

2. Felix Geisendörfer @felixge
5. Robin Mehner @rmehner
8. NodeCopter Programming flying robots with JavaScript
9. NodeCopter Programming flying robots with JavaScript anything
10. NodeCopter
11. What is NodeCopter? • Full day event for programming flying robots • Also a community on the internet • Started as a pre-event to JSConf.eu on Oct 5th, 2012
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20. Parrot AR Drone 2.0
21. Safety
22. Why?
23. Survival
24. Learning • New programming languages • WebGL • Websockets • H264 • Computer Vision, OpenCV • UDP Networking • Accelerometers, Gyroscopes • PID Controllers • Kalman Filters • Reverse Engineering
25. Easy to get started • No soldering • No electronics • No cable wiring • Great for learning programming
26. http://nodecopter.com
27. June - September 2012
28. Summer of Drones • Buy 80 Drones • up to 34 NodeCopter events in Europe & North America, organized by local community leaders • June - September 2013 • Your city?
29. http://summerofdrones.com Looking for Sponsors!
30. Thanks!