{"id":105059,"date":"2018-02-06T11:08:36","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T11:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=105059"},"modified":"2025-07-01T23:40:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:40:35","slug":"look-no-hands-use-your-face-to-fly-a-drone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/look-no-hands-use-your-face-to-fly-a-drone\/","title":{"rendered":"Look \u2013 no hands! Use your face to fly a drone"},"content":{"rendered":"

Look \u2013 no hands! Use your face to fly a drone<\/b><\/h3>\n

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Credit: Bruce,\u00a0Perron, and Vaughan \u00a0 ( Simon Fraser University)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Ready-Aim-Fly<\/a> is a drone project that lets you control your favorite flying toy by making faces<\/b>.<\/p>\n

Researchers at British Columbia\u2019s Simon Fraser University<\/b> have created the system to be as intuitive as possible<\/b> \u2013 insofar as staring at a flying robot<\/b> is ever \u201cintuitive.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s how it works: First, hold your UAV at arm\u2019s length and stare at it<\/b>, trying not to make any facial expressions. Next, turn the drone on its side and choose a \u201ctrigger\u201d expression<\/b>, which will tell the drone when to lift off.<\/p>\n

Finally, \u201caim\u201d the drone<\/b> by walking backwards the same distance you\u2019d like it to fly, and make another face<\/b> to decide if the flightpath will be straight or a boomerang round trip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Look \u2013 no hands! Use your face to fly a drone Credit: Bruce,\u00a0Perron, and Vaughan \u00a0 ( Simon Fraser University) Ready-Aim-Fly is a drone project that lets you control your favorite flying toy by making faces. Researchers at British Columbia\u2019s Simon Fraser University have created the system to be as intuitive as possible \u2013 insofar … Continue reading “Look \u2013 no hands! Use your face to fly a drone”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2040,"featured_media":105281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[1032],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-105059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-gadgets"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328318,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105059\/revisions\/328318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105059"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=105059"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=105059"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=105059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}