Biocopter

Inspiration

We have an interest in both drones and the Myo, and felt like a purposeful mixture of the two could prove benificial in many ways. We got the idea from Syndrome's (from The Incredibles) hand drone that checks for signs of life.

What it does

The drone is controlled the natural methods of interaction (the Myo's hand gestures) and scans for environmental data such as humidity, temperature, and different gasses.

How I built it

We used the Myo, State Farm's Parot Drone, Microsoft Azure (for database, hosting, and analytics).

Challenges I ran into

Getting PHP to work with Azure as a database was possibly one of the most difficult parts.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

Getting the project done on time.

What I learned

Database skills, patience, java programming, and Particle programing.

What's next for Biocopter?

Add more sensors to get more information and more gestures for Myo to make it more natural.

Built With

Submitted to

TAMUHack

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I worked on gathering relevant information (temperature, humidity, air quality / gas detection) through the Particle Core + its sensors and helped integrating it with the Windows Azure Platform to relay realtime information and graphics. The Particle core was instructed to connect to wifi anytime it was powered on or lost its signal, from there we were able to send information to Azure to be analyzed and displayed.

Zain Merchant
I worked on getting the Parrot AR2 drone to communicate and take commands from a MYO. We connected the MYO band to an android phone using bluetooth and the drone to the the same phone using wifi. We created movements that corresponded to drone behaviours and with these movements we were able to control the drone.

Jesus Toquinto
I worked on integrating the particle (aka Spark core) with Windows Azure (cloud platform) to store real time environmental information such as Temperature, Humidity and air quality. I have also used Power BI application to visualize environmental data in Azure database.

Ramkumar Paranthaman
I did most of the development of our Android app that detects gestures from the Myo armband and controls the Parrot drone accordingly. One of the challenges we ran into was that the drone was getting overwhelmed by the high rate of gesture commands from the Myo. We slowed down this rate by using a worker thread that only sends commands every few microseconds.

Cuong Ngo

Updates

Zain Merchant started this project — Oct 10, 2015 05:17 PM EDT

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