christrewartha/tello_controller

Control Tello drone with keyboard and camera

Computer control of DJI Ryze Tello Drone

Control the DJI Tello drone with keyboard - also use the camera for face recognition / tracking

Using this tello package: https://github.com/damiafuentes/DJITelloPy

And following this tutorial initially: https://youtu.be/LmEcyQnfpDA

Those files are in the "tutorial" folder. They are a bit rough and ready, I've tried to clean them up a bit in files in the root folder as I didn't really like how he used pygame in the tutorial. This needs a bit more work though.

I also got a bit tired manually switching wifi network to connect to the drone, so I've added that to the script. It currently doesn't exit properly though, I'll look into that.

Next steps are:

• the face tracking isn't tested on tello yet
• adjust the movement a bit to include smoothing and maybe some counter-steer when lifting off
• try object detection with opencv