?hat Building a (semi) Autonomous Drone with Python

They might not be delivering our mail (or our burritos) yet, but drones are now simple, small, and affordable enough that they can be considered a toy. The Parrot AR Drone has an API that lets you control not only the drone's movement but also stream video and images from its camera. In this post, I'll show you how you can use Python and node.js to build a drone that moves all by itself. So given that I'm not a drone, or a machine vision professional, I'm going to have to keep things simple. For this project, I'm going to teach my drone how to follow a red object.