You Can Control the Ryze Tello Drone From a Computer Keyboard via DroneBlocks for Chrome

Tello can be controlled from the PC keyboard

Tel­lo is a nano drone devel­oped by Ryze in close col­lab­o­ra­tion with DJI and Intel. The tech­no­log­i­cal device allows not only to get the basic skills of pilot­ing a copter, but also intro­duces you to the excit­ing block pro­gram­ming of the device through var­i­ous tools that even a child can han­dle. DroneBlocks is one such pro­gram­ming tool avail­able on smart­phones and tablets, as well as com­put­ers with the Chrome brows­er.

In addi­tion to pro­gram­ming fea­tures, the devel­op­er has added the abil­i­ty to con­trol Tel­lo direct­ly from a com­put­er key­board, ide­al for hav­ing fun with­out a smart­phone or tablet, using DroneBlocks pro­gram­ming fea­tures that include per­form­ing var­i­ous repet­i­tive actions, log­ic tests, cal­cu­la­tions and more. DroneBlocks for Chrome is offered free of charge in the browser’s Exten­sions sec­tion.

How it works?

The drone is con­trolled by stan­dard keys on the key­board, which are com­mon­ly used in var­i­ous games: W / A / S / D (Take off / Rotate left around its axis / Decrease / Rotate right around its axis); I/J/K/L (Fly forward/Fly left/Fly backward/Fly right); Space is respon­si­ble for land­ing; Flips are exe­cut­ed with arrow keys “← ↑ → ↓”. For clar­i­ty, we attach the video below, which demon­strates the process of pair­ing and con­trol­ling the Tel­lo drone from the com­put­er key­board through the DroneBlocks soft­ware.