Tello Drone by DJI
Connection Type
Wi-Fi
Audio Support
No
Camera Support
Yes
Tello is an impressive and affordable little drone that's a blast to fly and helps users learn about drones with coding education. The high-resolution onboard camera can be used for computer vision tracking within ARC. With the camera fully compatible with the ARC camera device, there's no limit to what this drone can do! Use Javascript, Python, EZ-Script, C++, or .Net with ARC to program this DJI drone easily.
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ARC provides a robot skill that connects to the DJI Tello for movement controls and receiving the video feed. Follow the instructions in the robot skill by Clicking Here.
You could do the landing easy enough. But not the charging as it’s usb
Naomi Wu built a charging mat design.
Right on. Do it! It works with the camera device and hopefully NMS soon. But the NMS requires specific coordinate commands, not just move forward. It’s kinda weird that way
Just had a quick play with the Tello. Did you enable colour tracking and then turn the speed up. LOL this is deadly. I guess I need to find the propeller guards.
Been having a play with this. lots of fun. Any thoughts around control commands for the drone. Trying to write a quick script take off look around for an object. fly to object, get some video of the object and then land again. Also is there a list of variables that it collects (battery level, height of drone etc)?
I still have my old Phantom 2 + - still works, never tried it with ARC - know if it will work?
not as is, phantom uses an RC receiver so you would need to make a gateway and I don't think there is a supported SDK as they discontinued support for phantom 2 a couple of years ago.
You can buy a tello for ~$100 but at the moment you can only fly it with the tello Movement Panel and I haven't worked out how to tell it to take off or land or fly at a certain height etc, It doesn't have a GPS so way points and NMS doesn't look possible although DJ said he was looking into that a while ago (can't see how it would be possible though) The camera tracking works so that is pretty cool.
my drone have it's own GPS and way points - my camera works well also
I going to test if the ARC can detect my drone's camera as soon as the battery charges - I will let you know