crazyflie with pykinect

[thinkfly]

I wish to check the possibilities of programming crazyflie.

For example, let the copter carry a table tennis ball, use a Kinect camera to track is position in space... is it possible to program and control the copter to fly a pre-planned route?

Thinking of using the pykinect package:

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pykinect/1.0

Ultimately, would be really crazy if I could let it balance a pole, like Dr. Raffaello D'Andrea did in this video with larger quadcopters:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2itwFJCgFQ

Any thoughts or experiences with similar setup would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.

- Thinkfly

[marcus]

This sounds exiting, it would be great to see it implemented

As for controlling the Crazyflie it's easy if you use the Python API. It's just a couple of lines of code to connect to the Crazyflie and send control commands. Have a look at this old thread to see a short example. The naming of the functions in the API has changed slightly but the principle is the same.

[thinkfly]

Marcus thanks for the reply