wraggster
August 10th, 2013, 21:17
http://hackadaycom.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/google-glass-quadcopter-control.jpg?w=493&h=450
For some reason this project makes us think of the Dog Pog Grid from Neal Stephenson’s Diamond Age. It’s not that there’s a ton of drones floating around this guy, it’s that he’s got one which looks like it’s his bodyguard and is controlled by the Google Glass he wears (http://blog.iceddev.com/2013-07-30-controlling-drones-with-google-glass-and-javascript.html) on his head. The future is now!
We find the metamorphosis of this project interesting as well. It started as a Leap motion controlled rover project. We saw a similar hack just the other day that paired a Leap Motion with a Hexapod (http://hackaday.com/2013/08/06/leap-motion-controls-hexapod-with-hand-signals/). But [Blaine] wasn’t satisfied with that. Having had a taste for alternate control inputs he dug in and got to work making Google Glass the control interface. But the problem with moving your head to control a rover is that you can’t actually see it because looking down would cause unwanted motion. His solution was to transition to a quadcopter, which will hover at eye level when he’s looking right at it. Glass is sending raw sensor data to a server, which does the translation to control commands for the quadcopter.
http://hackaday.com/2013/08/09/google-glass-controlled-quadcopter/
For some reason this project makes us think of the Dog Pog Grid from Neal Stephenson’s Diamond Age. It’s not that there’s a ton of drones floating around this guy, it’s that he’s got one which looks like it’s his bodyguard and is controlled by the Google Glass he wears (http://blog.iceddev.com/2013-07-30-controlling-drones-with-google-glass-and-javascript.html) on his head. The future is now!
We find the metamorphosis of this project interesting as well. It started as a Leap motion controlled rover project. We saw a similar hack just the other day that paired a Leap Motion with a Hexapod (http://hackaday.com/2013/08/06/leap-motion-controls-hexapod-with-hand-signals/). But [Blaine] wasn’t satisfied with that. Having had a taste for alternate control inputs he dug in and got to work making Google Glass the control interface. But the problem with moving your head to control a rover is that you can’t actually see it because looking down would cause unwanted motion. His solution was to transition to a quadcopter, which will hover at eye level when he’s looking right at it. Glass is sending raw sensor data to a server, which does the translation to control commands for the quadcopter.
http://hackaday.com/2013/08/09/google-glass-controlled-quadcopter/