Crazyflie from the terminal - A Rust TUI to fly, record and execute

[yannick-cw]

crazyflight_example.mp4

https://github.com/yannick-cw/crazyflie-commander

I needed a Rust learning project for myself and thought the best way to do that is with a real physical object.

For this I created a TUI to control the crazyflie from the terminal. Based on your excellent Rust crates.
This allows:

• free flight, wasd + arrow keys for speed and yaw
• recording free flight and replaying it
• planning missions in advance, can be stored as json, supports some predefined steps, like orbits, lawn mower paths, simulating being a billiard ball or smooth, fast flying through waypoints

Besides the TUI I built a crate that is a bit higher level than crazyflie-lib, managing the setpoint loop and rather exposing only an API to submit commands or a stream of commands for free flight.

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This only works with the flow deck and radio.

Next steps

• adding a visual mission planning tool as well
• trajectory upload to support finishing a mission when connection is lost
• maybe getting my hands on the AI deck and adding in some obstacle avoidance or following something?!

[gemenerik]

Sweet, thanks for sharing!