Painting with drones

The purpose of this project was to come up with an interactive demonstration for the Pygmalion Festival 2016 at UIUC. The end result was a demo where an Android device was given to the visitors, each visitor could then draw any continuous path on the Android device. The x,y-coordinates would then be uploaded to the cloud and a trajectory based on Bézier curves would be generated using a Python script. Finally ROS was used to control a small drone. Camera software was then used to highlight the brightest light in the scene, in this case a LED on the drone. This resulted in the path being visualised in 3D-space.

Blog post: https://blog.tkjelectronics.dk/2016/12/painting-with-drones

Main Github: https://github.com/HovakimyanResearch/crazyflie-demos

Android app: https://github.com/Lauszus/DroneDraw