You will find in this place all the materials let to your disposal, to participate to the Windows Phone 8 / Windows 8 app contest for the famous AR.Drone 2.0 from Parrot. Before any action if you are motivated to participate to this contest, send us your idea of application (before July 21 23h59 Paris time), we will contact you soon:
- If you are from France email us at Ardrone2windows@microsoft.com more details here (french)
- If you are from Central or Eastern Europe go straight ahead to http://fly.promorc.com/, you will find all the information you need to know over there.
In this first version of our SDK you will find
- Core components to control the drone from WIndows 8 or Windows Phone 8.
- Input controls to send commands trough virtual or concrete XBox joysticks.
- A Navigation data reader
- A Configuration data reader and writer
- A video component to render the stream video on both Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. New features are coming
This SDK would have never been there without the passion of some valuable guys. We started the development of this SDK reusing most of patterns introduced by Ruslan Balanukhin in the great AR.Drone projet for C# and Mono. Some other great ideas, introduced by alex100990 and his team in the Windows Phone AR.Drone controller have been partially reused. Finally thanks to TechPreacher who has shared a nice [Joystick control] (https://github.com/TechPreacher/WP8-Joystick-UserControl), we reused on improved in our code. At your turn, feel free to download this SDK, extend, test, send feedback and finally share!
Despite our efforts to propose to the community a well-polished SDK, we apologize if you won’t get the best experience from our work. Please log any bug or improvement request that may help us to improve the quality of the solution. We will update both the SDK and its documentation from your feedback. We don’t have the pretention neither to release a zero bug solution, nor to cover all the features supported by the AR.Drone 2.0. This SDK shared “As Is” is composed of one Windows Phone 8 and one Windows 8 library that share 95% of their code. Those libraries deal with command, navigation data and configuration management. A separate library is specialized on the video stream decoding. We also provide two samples apps (one for Windows 8 and one for Windows Phone 8) to demonstrate the usage of our SDK.
Enjoy the experience!