[OT] suggestions for a programmable drone on a budget?

[Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 19 November 2014 at 23:12:31 UTC, Mike wrote:
> You've marked this OT so I'm assuming you're not motivated to 
> do this in D.  If I'm wrong, then it's very much on topic, IMO.

I probably would use D, but might not due to some external 
factors. Part of my motivation is doing it in partnership with 
the local school, and my in preliminary talks with the 
administration, they weren't enthusiastic about D (I think 
because their current CS teaching staff - math teachers who have 
barely done any programming at all picking up an extra class - 
are unaware of it. But then again, you aren't going to be running 
a drone on Javascript and Scratch anyway!)

Either way though, I'm not too concerned about the software side 
of it; I'm sure I can figure that out once I get some hardware to 
play around with and I wasn't sure where to start with that.

> I received a few relevant links from our community here: 
> http://forum.dlang.org/post/lq3jbp$o21$1@digitalmars.com
>
> Also, check out http://www.openpilot.org or 
> http://ardupilot.com, if not for their hardware and code, then 
> for their forum and community.  I don't participate there 
> myself, but it looks like the perfect place to ask such 
> questions.

Cool, thanks!