Robotics with Go is a Breeze
summary
Demonstration shows building a face-tracking and gesture control drone using Gobot + GoCV on a Tello with FFmpeg for video and optional TinyGo for microcontrollers. Code uses events, goroutines and channels to handle telemetry, face detection, classification models and finger-count gestures (Gaussian blur → finger count → flips). Demos achieve takeoff, flips, palm land and streaming, but suffer Wi‑Fi latency, overheating and occasional API disconnects so classification and gestures are intermittently flaky.
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chapters (19)
- 0:00Robotics in Go
- 2:12Robotics platforms evolution
- 5:49Raspberry Pi robotics
- 7:59OpenCV in robotics
- 9:45TinyGo for microcontrollers
- 11:17APIs and robotics future
- 12:22GoBot framework
- 15:47Tello drone demo
- 22:16Camera streaming and video
- 24:36Concurrency in drone control
- 26:05Face tracking with OpenCV
- 26:50PS4 controller demo
- 31:00Gesture recognition
- 33:23Voice commands for drone
- 35:57Object classification
- 38:09Drone vision performance
- 39:14Automated racetrack
- 40:45Gesture detection mechanics
- 41:51Summary
