Before we go into the lessons I want to go through the things we will be needing for the course.
These items will not be provided within this course.
So please prepare them yourself.
The first and most important item will be the Tello edu Tello drone.
Let's go to the rise tech Web site.
The link is w w w dot R Y Z E R O B O T I C as dot com on the top of the page you will see Tello and
Tello Edu.
Let's check out the Tello first this white body drone is the tallow drone which is an earlier version
compared to the tallow edu drone.
If you compare the two products the tallow Edu has been created for educational purposes so you will
be able to do more coding and activities with it as you can do more things with the tallow Edu.
The price is a bit higher if you are on a budget you can purchase the original tallow for this course
but if you are willing to do more coding with your drone besides this course I advise you to purchase
the Tello edu to purchase.
You can simply click on the where to buy tab and go to the online store.
The online store will be the DJI store.
If we go to the top page you will see a rise tech Tello on the right as you click on it you will see
both tallow and tallow Edu.
The prices will be Tello for ninety nine dollars and tallow edu for one hundred twenty nine if you are
buying this product in a different region.
You can check the pricing by changing regions on the top of your screen.
Now let's go back to the rice check site again to look into the differences between the Tello and Teller
Edu.
Here we have the Tello on your left and Tello edu on your right.
If we scroll down to see the features you'll see the differences between the two products.
The main feature for the telco would it be coding.
It'll be more focused on controlling the drone with apps or to view the image through VR devices.
Although Tello can be programmed to move remotely by coding with Python.
So for this lesson you can choose to purchase the original Tello if you are planning on coding.
Besides Python the tallow edu can be programmed with swift code the tallow A2 includes features as unlocking
SD case.
So if you are willing to do more coding with your drone you should be purchasing the tallow Adu.
Also if we scroll down the page you can see that the teller edu comes with these pads with these pads.
You can program the drones to land on certain pads the pads have numbers written on the middle and the
drones can identify them and can move around one pad to the other for our lessons.
We would not be needing these pads so if you decide to purchase the original tallow you don't have to
get these pads.
Let's see more of that Tello edu features.
If you have an iPad the Tello Adu can be operated with the swift playground app.
Also this is the playground app.
The app has features where you can operate drones and other devices.
It's great for kids who want to start learning how to code.
That might be another reason to choose the teller Edu.
Now let's go back to the DGI site and click on Tello Edu.
We can check what is included in the box.
You can see that the drone comes with one battery and with one battery the drone can fly for about 10
minutes so every 10 minutes of flight you would have to recharge the batteries to charge the battery.
The battery goes into the drone itself and you will be connecting the drone with the USB cable.
You won't be able to fly the drone while you charge it.
If you want to fly for a longer amount of time you should purchase an extra battery.
If you go back to the top of this page and choose Tello it will take you to another page showing optional
items you can purchase.
The most common thing purchased would be the extra battery and the battery charging hub.
This hub will let you charge without sticking the battery into the drone and will save you the flight
time.
These items are optional to those who plan on flying the drones for a longer time for this lesson.
You do not need to purchase these items.
There are also controllers for the drones but you can use your smartphone as the controller so you wouldn't
need to purchase a separate controller if you are thinking of using your drone for a competitive race.
You might want to think about purchasing but for a more simple Use your smartphone will be the best.
There are more devices before this course you can simply purchase either the telco or telco edu drones.
Let's go back to terror list.
The next item will be a Wi-Fi enabled P.C. for coding.
This can be any Mac device or a Windows device.
The drone will need a Wi-Fi connection so if you are using a desktop computer.
Don't forget to check that the computer has a USP Wi-Fi connector.
If your computer has a camera you will be able to see that open CV samples.
In this course we will be using the camera and the drone.
So if your computer doesn't have a camera that's OK.
In our lessons we will be using the camera for face recognition.
Here you can see how I programmed my computer camp to recognize my face.
If you wish to do this with your computer you will need a camera.
Next you would need a Wi-Fi and Tello app compatible smartphone to set your drone or to operate your
drone.
You will need a compatible smartphone
if you are using an iPhone.
You can go to the app store and search for the Tello app in the information section you will see the
compatibility.
Here it requires I Os nine point zero and later check to see if your smartphone is compatible
if you are using an Android phone.
You can't go to the Google App Store and see the requirements.
Currently the app requires five point zero.
No I think most if you have a compatible smartphone but if you are not sure make sure you check their
requirements in the app stores.
Next in the list are a USP cable for a network connection a router for Wi-Fi and network connection
network cable and HDMI L5 compatible smartphone browser.
These items will be used to no less than four drone games.
If you don't intend to use your drone for gaming these items will be optional.
This is a short video with my kids playing the game.
It's a shaking game where you shake your smartphone to operate the drone you shake to fly the drone
and you make commands depending on the number of times you shake your phone and compete the flight time
if you do not plan on programming the scheme you can opt out on preparing these items and just read
through the codes to see how the script is written.
This is the system configuration for the shape game.
Your smartphone will be connected to the router with Wi-Fi the router will be connected to your computer
with a network cable your computer and drone will be connected with Wi-Fi if you are not familiar with
IP addresses or don't understand how each devices work.
You can skip the shape game lesson.
This is how I actually set the devices.
My laptop is connected to the drone with Wi-Fi since I'm using a new laptop that doesn't support ESB
cables.
I'm using an adapter to connect the USP cable which is connected to the network cable this network cable
is connected to the Wi-Fi router the router is connected to the wall.
This Wi-Fi from the router is the one connected to my smartphone and the screen you'll see one ninety
two point one sixty eight point zero point sixteen point five thousand which is the IP address of my
laptop.
The smartphone is accessing the server on my laptop.
The last thing we need for this game is an HDMI L5 compatible smartphone browser to collect the sheikh
data.
We'll use a javascript called shaped dot J.S. go to get hub dot com slash a l e x Gee I b as O and slash
shake dot J S if you scroll down you can check which browsers are supported.
I think most of the people will be using the supported browsers.
That's all we need to prepare for the lessons.
Make sure you have these items so we can start flying the drones.