{"id":3766,"date":"2011-04-20T09:33:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T13:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/?p=3766"},"modified":"2011-04-20T09:50:53","modified_gmt":"2011-04-20T13:50:53","slug":"a-new-toyto-keep-my-head-expanding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/3766","title":{"rendered":"A new toy\/to keep my head expanding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, a request: someone (YouTube, listen up)\u00a0 needs to develop a framework for displaying synchronous graphic data streams. I&#8217;m envisioning a thumbnail(s) embedded in main screen &#8211; clicking on a thumbnail embiggens it while returning whatever was on the main screen to thumbnail status. It would be nice for videos like those below and for something I&#8217;d like to mess with this summer &#8211; synchronous heads-up videos, GPS\/map data and maybe even heart rate info from a bike ride.<\/p>\n<p>I recently won a <a href=\"http:\/\/ardrone.parrot.com\/\">Parrot AR drone<\/a> at a benefit auction. I&#8217;ve been wishing for one since discovering them on a gagdet blog last summer? fall? and the auction was too good a chance to miss. The drone is a quadcopter with 2 video cameras (forward-facing and down-facing) that feeds video to and is controlled by an iPod\/iPhone\/etc. There are good videos on the Parrot site <a href=\"http:\/\/ardrone.parrot.com\/parrot-ar-drone\/usa\/pilot-academy\/indoor-flight\">showing how<\/a> the control system works; I just wanted to mess around a bit with the 3rd party control app that allows one to record the video stream from the drone. Aside &#8211; why this is not part of the standard Parrot software is beyond me.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what an innocent bystander would see (the 1st minute is crap &#8211; I&#8217;m trying to set off a flash on the cell phone to act as a visual clap-board):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eRZW21uYVco\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s the view from the drone:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TEJlKBeZblg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the theme song:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_7VgDSNxlGU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an amazing little device &#8211; I may not have a jetpack, but&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, a request: someone (YouTube, listen up)\u00a0 needs to develop a framework for displaying synchronous graphic data streams. I&#8217;m envisioning a thumbnail(s) embedded in main screen &#8211; clicking on a thumbnail embiggens it while returning whatever was on the main &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/3766\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,10,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gearheadism","category-information-sys","category-making-things"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdqxx-YK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3766"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3777,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3766\/revisions\/3777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}