Build Flight Control/Volunteer Web App

[nathan815]

We will have another python entry point script, web.py, that will start a flask server and open the browser to the flask server url.

Web App Features

• panel when flight is not in progress
  • form to enter pilot information
  • start flight button
  • test flight button (don't record flight data)
• control panel when a flight is in progress
  • stop flight button
  • cancel flight button
  • stretch goal: live flight video stream
• flight finished panel
  • shows the flight's stats
  • button to mark as valid or invalid to show on leaderboard (aka, flight was fully completed)
  • stretch goal: playback the video of the flight, and upload to Amazon S3 😎

Some other stretch goals for the web app:

• list previously entered pilots and allow to pre-fill form from them (so a return flyer's info doesn't have to be retyped)
• list all previous flights
  • change flight/pilot details
  • mark a previous flight as valid/invalid

Communication between web app and drone code

The web app front end will communicate with the flask server through websockets. See #6.

Drone Code

All of the drone code (i.e. code calling tellopy APIs) can be running in another thread. The flask server thread will communicate with the drone thread via a Queue.

When a "start flight" command is sent, we will enable the drone for flying and begin recording data. Similarly when flight stop/cancel is sent, we will make the drone land and stop recording the drone data.

[nathan815]

I'm also thinking maybe this web app can have two screens: one for the facilitator/volunteer who is signing up pilots, stopping/stopping flight, and determining whether a flight is valid, and another screen to show live video footage from the drone (if we reach this stretch goal).

The Mac Mini has HDMI and mini displayport, so we could hook up two monitors to it.