Well that means it's way better to use a double sensor covering 30 degrees front and and only navigate from the front (the cam has to be mounted there), only accelerometers to be used, it'll make it way cheaper,
But how do we communicate b/w xbee (arduino) and apm? Another xbee antenna? Will apm support it

I too want to make a gesture controller for an all quad, have an idea of using trainer port to.transmit signals to quad. Planning to use glove with gyro for gesture.
Anyone have experience/knowledge of signals transmitted via trainer port? I wish to replicate the signals to send external commands to apm

Quote from: Ribz on March 05, 2015, 08:15:11 PM
Well that means it's way better to use a double sensor covering 30 degrees front and and only navigate from the front (the cam has to be mounted there),

Yes, that's better

Quote from: Ribz on March 05, 2015, 08:15:11 PM
only accelerometers to be used, it'll make it way cheaper,
But how do we communicate b/w xbee (arduino) and apm? Another xbee antenna? Will apm support it

They have no native support, but you can use this arduino as a radio receiver(or a proxy if you are using another radio override controls)

I was talking about coalition detection in the last post (2 in front) . Also was asking how do we communicate between apm and gesture controllers(acc's)

Thanks for the edit akhil, very insightful

People have been telling me that 250's are better for gesture controlled copters, why?

Also in near future will be planning to mount a kinect on the copter, so 350 with 980kv motors should be fine right?

As from a video i learnt quads with longer arms tend to react slowly to changes and for your application the quad must be swift or you'll crash!