If you’ve ever gone through the onboarding process with a Tello drone you’ll understand there are some hurdles to overcome. This applies to the standard Tello, Tello EDU, and Tello Talent. Just recently we were testing a new Tello Talent to build our Robomaster TT sensor course with Arduino. When powering Tello I immediately observed […]
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We are excited about the new capabilities of Tello Talent (RoboMaster TT) educational drone and just added support for the LED add-on in DroneBlocks for Android. Since Tello Talent has LED control we now have a new block category titled “LED”. The way you can access this new capability is to tap on the menu […]
Read More… from RoboMaster TT (Tello Talent) Wifi Connection Process with DroneBlocks for Android
One of the most exciting things for DroneBlocks has been our work towards accessing drone sensor information, as well actuating sensors. This has now become a reality with Tello Talent educational drone, also referred to as Robomaster TT. Our philosophy is that drones continue to serve as a platform to perform various tasks in the […]
Read More… from Programming Tello Talent (aka Robomaster TT) LED Board with DroneBlocks
One of the things we constantly think about is how to improve the overall programming experience when it comes to drone coding. For several years you’ve been able to create and save/share missions with your DroneBlocks account. When thinking about how Integrated Development Environments such as Xcode, Visual Studio, Eclipse, PyChram and other IDEs work […]
One of the biggest challenges we’ve had to overcome is displaying Tello’s video stream on iOS and Android. If you look at the SDK documentation you’ll see that it’s really easy to enable the video stream. You send a “streamon” command over UDP and Tello immediately starts streaming video data on port 11111 back to […]
Read More… from Programming the Tello and Tello EDU Camera with DroneBlocks
I remember when GitHub was first launched and how I thought it was so strange that their goal was to make coding a social experience. Prior to GitHub I had been a user of open source software like Apache, Linux, PHP, and MySQL to name a few. But those were big time projects being used […]
** DroneBlocks Drone Coding Simulator 2.0 is Now Available ** In today’s environment of remote learning, we understand the challenges of purchasing drone hardware and having it available for students to use at home. We believe that simulation is an important part of the drone coding lifecycle, just like in the world of mobile app […]
Read More… from Testing Your Drone Code with the New DroneBlocks Simulator
We were honored to be invited to TEDxYouth Austin this past weekend. Thanks to Kush Desai and the youth leaders of TEDxYouth Austin for arranging the event and asking DroneBlocks to be a part of the xLabs experience. I wanted to take a few minutes and share the interactive session we planned for the students. […]
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With Dallas reaching a heat index of around 106 today, it is an understatement to say we’re excited to head to Denver for ISTE 2016. Part of the DroneBlocks team and a teacher ambassador from Dripping Springs ISD will be available at the CTN Playground to provide flight simulation demonstrations and answer questions about launching a drone program! […]