Drone Programming with Tello

Preface

This book is a tutorial on programming Tello drones. Please watch the video below to imagine the possibilities of programming drones with the Tello, Scratch and Python!

The diagram below shows the structure of the Tello material from preparation and safety into hands-on control with Scratch, Python, and eventually multi-drone workflows.

Read it as a dependency chain: safe setup comes first, then you learn the aircraft and beginner controls, and only after that does the book ask you to automate or coordinate flights.

Contents

• 1. Prerequisites
  • 1.1. Scratch
  • 1.2. NodeJS
• 2. Safety
  • 2.1. Personal protective equipment
  • 2.2. Environment
• 3. Drone Parts
  • 3.1. Props
  • 3.2. Motor
  • 3.3. Landing gears
  • 3.4. Body
  • 3.5. Electronic speed controller
  • 3.6. Receiver
  • 3.7. Antenna
  • 3.8. Battery
  • 3.9. Camera
  • 3.10. Sensors
• 4. Code Blocks
  • 4.1. Take off and landing
  • 4.2. Flying up and down
  • 4.3. Flying left and right
  • 4.4. Flying forward and backward
  • 4.5. Rotating
  • 4.6. Miscellaneous
• 5. Scratch Programming
  • 5.1. Hello, World!
  • 5.2. Going up and down
  • 5.3. Left or right?
  • 5.4. Forward, then backward
  • 5.5. Turning around and around
  • 5.6. Simple flight
  • 5.7. Flip meow
  • 5.8. Flipping out
  • 5.9. Manual control
  • 5.10. Spicy manual control
  • 5.11. Square
  • 5.12. Square flips
  • 5.13. Spaceship
• 6. Python Programming
  • 6.1. Python Setup
  • 6.2. Tello Software Development Kit
• 7. Python, Auto Flight Path
  • 7.1. Stats
  • 7.2. Tello
  • 7.3. Commands
  • 7.4. Application
  • 7.5. Running the application
• 8. Python, Manual Control
  • 8.1. Tello
  • 8.2. User Interface
  • 8.3. Application
  • 8.4. Running the application
• 9. Swarm Programming
  • 9.1. Dependencies
  • 9.2. Set Tello modes
  • 9.3. Python programming
  • 9.4. Download
• 10. Resources

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The full source code is available on GitHub.

Cite this book as follows.:

@misc{oneoffcoder_drone_programming_tello_2019,
title={Drone Programming with Tello},
url={https://tello.oneoffcoder.com},
author={One-Off Coder},
year={2019},
month={Nov}}

Author

Jee Vang, Ph.D.

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