Competition

Drone Games is a NodeCopter-Style programming competition powered by drones and JavaScript. Hackers will receive one Parrot AR Drone 2.0 so they can work on their project (Limited availability). Here is one of the drones in action. The day of the event hackers will get a chance to present their work to other attendees and judges (See Schedule). Judges will select the winner(s).

ar-drone Node.js Library

You can use any language, however, Before JSConf.eu , the amazing Felix Geisendörfer wrote a library to control the Parrot AR Drone 2.0 with javascript using node.js. So basically you can program in JavaScript. He also wrote a tool to install node.js ON THE DRONE. Here are photos of the event.

History of Node.js and Drones

(NodeCopter Extract) Before JSConf, the Berlin.js team held the first Nodecopter event, with 20 teams hacking on everything from controlling drones with Wii controllers, to programming their drones to see red and charge. Read Mikeal Rogers's blog post for a full report.

• Fly in a circle, eight or other pattern
• Coordinate flight with another drone
• Detect a face / follow that person

• Recognize commands via hand gestures
• Visualize music by flying to the beat
• Fly a pre-defined course as fast as possible (race)

• Try to connect some non-standard equipment via USB / PINS on the bottom
• Drone pong: Create a game where the drone is the ball and reacts to players