Flying a drone with twitter, bananas & Web APIs

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Buys an SG900s then switches to a palm-size Parrot Mambo Mini and reverse-engineers control: Wireshark and tPacketCapture reveal UDP commands, minidrone-js generates the required XML so takeoff works in under ten lines of JavaScript, and noble + Web Bluetooth connect the browser directly to the drone. Phone accelerometer via the Generic Sensors API maps XYZ to pitch/roll, Leap Motion maps hand joints to yaw/roll, and fruit connected to a Makey Makey or Arduino acts as capacitive buttons—touching bananas sends keyboard events that trigger flips and directional moves.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 3:225 WAYS TO KILL A PERFECTLY GOOD DRONE
3. 5:55WIRESHARK
4. 8:52SAFETY
5. 11:19Applications
6. 32:00Keep Playing

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