Leap motion and arduino controlling a Syma s107g

[Deastruacsion]

I've been looking around for success with the leap motion controlling an rc helicopter project, but I haven't found much. This one guy did seem to successfully do it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbowsxYw3IY
Anybody know how he did it?

[Joe_Ward]

How they did it is explained in the video. They have a JavaScript program running in node that takes in the Leap Motion data, interprets it and turns it into helicopter control commands. The program then sends the commands to an Arduino board which controls IR LEDS used to transmit the control signals to the helicopter. (Note that there are a lot more examples of controlling the Parrot AR drone with a Leap Motion controller.)

[AlexColgan]

Daniel Liebeskind recently wrote a guide about how he controlled an AR drone over wifi using Node.js: https://developer.leapmotion.com/blog/the-beginning-of-a-drone-revolution/