Thanks to ROS, popular open source robotic middleware, you can use almost any programming language to interact with the drone's API. Then you can connect to your drone with Wi-Fi and use either SSH or web interface to make it fly. We created clover framework to reduce the barrier of entry as much as possible - all you need to do is to assemble the drone and flash our preconfigured image on the Raspberry Pi's microSD card.

If you like participating in open source projects, drones are amazing opportunity to have fun and contribute at the same time! Robotics projects usually don't have an abundance of contributors, so every contribution is highly appreciated.Īutonomous vehicles, as any advanced robots, are incredibly hard to do from scratch because of complexity of the hardware and its interactions with the environment.

Not only a lot of companies start their drone deliveries, but drones also use the same technologies as self-driving cars, so you can apply your skills to create other autonomous vehicles, or robots of any kind.

The drone programming skills are an extremely valuable nowadays.

Drones are being used in universities as well - computer vision, machine learning and swarms are trending academic topics. You don't need gamification or other tricks to make the education appealing anymore. Whether you are learning, teaching your child or work in an educational institution, drones are great tool to teach Python, C++, computer vision and Linux.

Drones are the most involving and interesting way to learn programming.

Drones with video controller