Feels like a drone community also should have this included? It doesn't really fit into FPV or camera drones. I am extremely unsure how many people do these sorts of builds, likely very few, but an easier way of connecting with those that do would likely be golden.
What I am building is an autonomous drone that will respond to hand gestures and have a capability of following me around.
#Autonomous drone section.
trail urchin
wooden apex
https://discord.com/channels/536623076796923924/1020740183336947833
Then make a channel there, we can't really do a channel for 2 people
thin tangle
Every couple of months we do get someone asking questions about how to do this, typically for some school project that's way over-scoped. However, I can't ever remember any users discussing drone automation with any level of regularity. Aymeric is correct, make a thread in off-topic-forums for yourself, but for now there simply isn't enough discussion on the topic to warrant an entire channel
trail urchin
Every couple of months we do get someone asking questions about how to do this, ...
Yeah I understand that makes sense if the activity is so low, I was thinking that maybe more from that side of the drone community would come here if that option existed. But I see, thank you for option of threads
thin tangle
To be honest I think that logic works in theory, but not in practice. People will talk about what they want wherever they want, it's why most of our channels sometimes randomly turn into "off topic" for a while as conversations progress. Ultimately it's why we made the tiny-whoop channel, since we were talking about them everywhere else already.
trail urchin
To be honest I think that logic works in theory, but not in practice. People wil...
yeah I see, maybe I can rally the people. Autonomous drones "racing "would be cool
trail urchin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBiataDpGIo
hell yeah, thanks
rich sphinx
first get your "AI" part figured out. object tracking and gesture recognition under various lighting conditions and distances. mapping, path planing, etc.
then get that setup as mobile/light as you can.
then pair that with a companion computer on an ardupilot copter.
only the last step is the easy one but everyone thinks that AI is it.
the racing example above is beyond any non-university scope. the external tracking systems they use are expensive.
trail urchin
first get your "AI" part figured out. object tracking and gesture recognition un...
yeah I am looking to make the absolutley most basic version to start with, I am reading computer control systems and a machine learning course in uni right now so we’ll see if I can incorporate parts of it.
The racing seems insane, I cannot understand how they manage that, the latency must be sick
rich sphinx
oh wow, i forgot about that video. they now have everything on board. i wonder what hardware they are running that on.