To Kill a Working Drone: Flying drones with Twitter, Bananas and WebAPIs with Lucky Nkosi

Lucky is a Software Engineer in the R&D division of BBD Software and a game development lecturer at the Digitals Arts division of Wits University in Johannesburg. He has experience in building and maintaining enterprise banking software with varying tech-stacks; all the way from VB6 and .Net to web and cloud technologies. Lucky is interested in IoT and passionate about making technology accessible through the web.

My talk covers the power of modern browsers and how their features can be used to create accessible web applications that facilitate the delivery of meaningful and interactive experiences. I show this by flying a drone with a variety of control schemes; from pure JS to my phone's accelerometer and even detecting my hand gestures with no direct contact to anything.

Here is a download link to the talk slides (PDF)

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This talk will be presented as part of CodeLand:Distributed on July 23. After the talk is streamed as part of the conference, it will be added to this post as a recorded video.

Comments

[💎Di Marie💎]

The late night, cheap shopping spree is so familiar.

[John Breen]

This is amazing - getting some Marvel/Avengers vibes

[Brooke]

He's got that Tony Stark energy!

[Ben Halpern]

I've been looking forward to this one

[Bryant Richards]

Who else just added this drone to their amazon wish list?

[💎Di Marie💎]

I have no need for one and have been on the fence. Falling right over to purchase one now.

[Ben Halpern]

LOLOLOL

[Jane Tracy 👩🏽‍💻]

Me. I have to try it.

[Paul Caoile]

I have broken 2 already...

[John Breen]

"...or const" - lol!

[Alex Morton]

Amazing. "By playing, I learn."

I think if we all embrace the playful and fun side of learning, it becomes so much more enjoyable - and also effective!

[Paula]

This is so exciting I want to look for more projects of yours hahaha thank you so much, I'm such a hardware and electronics geek and loved this.

[MREves]

Excellent talk - I love the idea of learning through ridiculous things! definitely banking this in conjunction with Alex's earlier advice of moving beyond tutorials. Loved the talk.

[elleon003]

I love this approach! Building playful experiences is a beautiful way to put it.

[Shareese A]

I absolutely love this!!! Keep playing!!