Controlling AR Drone Quadcopter (or any Android game) with Playstation 3 Controller.
While I used to enjoy just playing around with the AR Drone quadcopter by using the standard smartphone control application where tilting your device helped to move the drone around, I always wanted to experience finer-grained and more intuitive control via a proper control-pad with analogue sticks.
In this video I show how you can use the Sixaxis Controller application (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dancingpixelstudios.sixaxiscontroller&hl=en) on your Android phone, on which you will need root access, to set up profiles and map the buttons from a Playstation 3 controller to emulate touches on-screen while the AR Drone control application (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.parrot.freeflight&hl=en) is running. I also show how the PS3 controller can be used as a general control interface for Android and can control any game or other application as needed.
We go for a little fly in the park to show the set-up in action but unfortunately this is the last time I ever fly this drone. After five or so minutes I lose control, more to do with the WiFi connection or drone battery I suspect than due to the bluetooth PS3 controller. The drone gains altitude and is taken by the wind, never to be seen again.
