
Install the OpenCV library on Windows to enable face recognition for drone tracking with Python, and verify by importing cv2 while installing FFmpeg for video capture.
Connect Tello drone to your laptop via UDP, using port 8889 for commands and 11111 for video, then control takeoff and landing with a Python drone manager for face recognition.
Learn to receive drone responses by implementing a threaded receive loop, logging outcomes, and handling socket errors while sending takeoff and land commands from a laptop.
Learn to command a Python-controlled drone using a move method with directions (up, down, left, right, forward, backward) and distances in centimeters, including takeoff, hover, and landing.
Learn to rotate a drone clockwise and counterclockwise by defined degrees, set a default of 10 degrees and 90-degree commands, and safely test takeoff, hover, rotation, flips, and landing.
Learn to control the drone with the SDK flip command, performing front, back, left, and right flips; observe a takeoff, sequential flips, and landing.
Create a config.py to route data to files, logs, templates, and static folders using os and flask. Launch the Flask server from the main script with the app object.
Set up a flask back end to receive post requests at api/command and log commands. Create JavaScript front end that sends takeoff and land commands and confirms a 200 response.
Add command buttons to the drone controller and use copy-pasted code to send up, down, left, right, forward, backward, and rotate commands, with a speed slider to adjust flight.
Detect faces, compute the face center and its gap to the frame center, then steer the drone with x, y, z to keep the face centered and monitor occupancy rate.
Define the get courses flow, import drone app models, and render a shake game page with radio-button course choices to let users select a course.
As you may know, robot technology is now very advanced. As an engineer working in one of the top IT companies in Silicon Valley for over 12 years, I feel that the trend to replace humans with robots will continue for quite a long time
In this course, we will be going to learn the following, using a toy drone that can fly indoors.
-Drone operation using Python
-Face recognition with OpenCV using the drone camera
-Web framework and web camera
-Automatic tracking
-Drone flight game (shake your smartphone)
Starting off with a toy drone will be a great way to start off your robot programming experience while you get used to Python. This is also an easy and fun way for your children to start coding. Now, let's get started with drone programming and be ahead of the robot technology trend!