We have been entering a very cool new UAVs / Drone product from Pleiades called “Spiri” and their technical art director Caroline Glass prepared a Blog post for us to talk about the project. It’s a very interesting platform that will push the industry toward the more “robotic” side of UAVs & Dro
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://community.robotshop.com/blog/show/pleiades-spiri-quadcopter-robot-platform
I like what I see. I am a software development teacher. I like the ability to program the drone. I would like to know what IDE’s or resources will be available for doing this. I am very interested in my school purchasing this if the programming resources are there.
Hi Craig,
You can download the Pleiades Spiri Simulation Preview to test it. A GitHub is also created. The platform itself will be compatible for multiple platforms:
- Gazebo-based simulator for Linux, Mac and PC.
- Control and demo apps for Android and iOS
- ROS (Robot Operating System)
- API in python, Java, C++ and node.js
