Drone Experience

Drone Coding Activity

We will begin by getting to know the students' background knowledge of drones.  We will start the lesson by showing the students how to use the Drone simulator with our powerpoint presentation. The students will watch a video of our drone flying and give them an example of the code we used. Using the computers, the students will start their own coding using the drone simulator. Once the students understand how the coding blocks work, and are able to create a successful code for their drone, we can move to the actual drone. Show the students how to get the Drone Block app and allow them to come up with their own code. As a group, we can decide how we want the drone code to look, and what we want out drone to do while flying. The students can give ideas of what blocks they want to use in oder to create a code for the Tello Drone.  Follow the steps below to connect to your Tello Drone and launch your mission. 

Link Tello Drone

To start this assignment we had to choose a Telllo Drone Simulation and figure out the code. To link the Drone to our computer, you need to click the button that says connect to Tello. On whatever device you are using, go to the WiFi and click on the corresponding Tello Wifi. 

Launching Mission

Once your code is created and you have connected the Drone to the DroneBlock app. Click on the menu and select the launch mission button. Once that is completed, your drone is ready for take-off. You can watch your Drone fly around. 

Today we got to actually fly a drone. We set up a code of our choice and decided how we wanted our Drone to move.