1. JavaScript, Node, and Drones
The Story of NodeCopter
Romain Huet Co-Founder & CTO of Jolicloud @romainhuet
Paris Tech Talks — May 6th
, 2013

2. Ever wanted to play with drones?

3. With JavaScript?
Ever wanted to play with drones?

4. JavaScript as the sole, unique language to build everything.

5. “Any application that can be written
in JavaScript, will eventually be
written in JavaScript.”
— Jeff Atwood, 2007

6. JavaScript Manifest Destiny:
Whatever program can be written in
JavaScript eventually WILL be written
in JavaScript. (And all programs can.)
— Isaac Z. Schlueter, 2012
“Any application that can be written
in JavaScript, will eventually be
written in JavaScript.”
— Jeff Atwood, 2007

8. npm install ar-drone
@felixge

9. NodeCopter.com

10. NodeCopterBERLIN-October5,2012 Google+: Jan Marsch

11. NodeCopterBERLIN-October5,2012 Google+: Jan Marsch

12. NodeCopterBERLIN-October5,2012 Google+: Jan Marsch

13. NodeCopterDublin-October20,2012 Flickr: a_l_a_n

14. NodeCopterDublin-October20,2012 Flickr: a_l_a_n

15. NodeCopterDublin-October20,2012 Flickr: a_l_a_n

16. Mini-NodeCopterEventsAllOvertheworld
San Francisco Seattle
London Bath

17. drone.takeoff();

18. Shellicopter™!
But also godrone in Go, also by @felixge!
Infinite possibilities to explore
Voice, Wiimote, Raspberry Pi, Arduino, johnny-five…
JavaScript, Node… and beyond!
# setup fd 3 as udp connection to drone
exec 3<>/dev/udp/192.168.1.1/5556
# takeoff
echo -e "AT*REF=1,512r" >&3
# landing
echo -e "AT*REF=2,0r" >&3

19. Thank you!
Read more on
NodeCopter.com
@romainhuet