Crowd Flight | Devpost

User Interface
Parrot AR Drone 2.0

Inspiration

The team saw the run rise out of chaos when crowds tried to control the protagonist in Twitch Plays Pokemon, but we wanted to bring this idea into the real world domain. We also recognized that we had a Parrot AR Drone 2.0 available for use.

What it does

Flight by committee: fly a Parrot AR Drone 2.0 with friends by voting on its next action. The action with the most votes wins

How we built it

Node.JS and Azure

Challenges we ran into

Managing multiple wifi networks Website recieving video feed from the drone

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Learning how to control the drone from a webapp Becoming more familiar with:

Parrot AR Drone 2.0
Microsoft Azure
Embedded Systems
WebSockets

What's next for Crowd Flight

Objective based games Multiple drone control Improving user interface Search and rescue

Built With

Submitted to

HackIllinois 2016

Created by

I worked on both the backend and frontend of the application. It was my first time using the AR Parrot Drone so it was very exciting to learn how to use its API

Matthew Gotteiner
I worked on refining the idea and developing desired features. Also was admin of drone when in operation to prevent harmful commands and helped with the video.

Michael Bednara
Mechanical Engineer
Worked on video and design. Learned from some great people

Andrew Fan
I worked on the idea brainstorming and quadcopter testing. Learnt a lot about JavaScript, websockets and Azure. It was an honor working with the amazing Matthew Gotteiner.

Adith Jagadish