Flying drone control with Leap Motion

It doesn't matter if you need to take photos from a bird's eye view, deliver books or just fly for fun, drones are becoming more and more popular. At the same time, developers are not stopping the search for new ways to manage them. Below you can see how the Leap Motion development team used its creation for contactless drone control.

The first experiments were carried out at the end of 2012, with a beta version of the device. A day after the launch of their new device, LabVIEW Hacker engineers ran a drone flying around the office:


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Is it possible to control the drone through a browser? We have created a simple web application that allows you to control the drone via Wi-Fi. See how the device rotates with the rotation of a finger and touches the other finger with the touch of another finger:



At the last RobotsConf conference, one of the most interesting events was a demonstration of the management of a drone by a twelve-year-old girl:

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And here you can see how Chris Matthieu “hooked up” a drone to SkyNet, an information system for the Internet of Things. This allows you to control the whole army of drones. Fortunately, Matthew was able to catch a drone before he escaped and raised a car uprising: