Open Source Mac Drone Software

PX4 is used in a wide range of use-cases, from consumer drones to industrial applications. It is also the leading research platform for drones and has been successfully applied to underwater vehicles and boats. PX4 provides a standard to deliver drone hardware support and software stack, allowing an ecosystem to build and maintain hardware and software in a scalable way. Drone development is complicated, and how to get started can be daunting and hard to navigate. These tutorials and resources provide a walkthrough of the basics of PX4. PX4 is highly portable, OS-independent and supports Linux, NuttX and MacOS out of the box. The PX4 User Guide explains how to assemble supported vehicles and fly drones with PX4. See the forum and chat if you need help!

The AR Drone is a quadrotor helicopter sold by Parrot. Parrot sells the drone as a toy controlled via a wireless device such as Ipods, Ipads, or Android based devices. Parrot advertises the toy as an advance in gaming because the control devices will project a virtual reality allowing users to play with their physical drone with an enhanced version on their controller where bullets or hot air balloons must be avoided in the virtual world. KIPR, KISS Institute for Practical Robotics is an organization that facilitates the learning of robotics programming in middle and high school students to peak an interest in computer science. To do this they hold competitions around the world called botball where students program autonomous land robots to perform various sets of tasks. KIPR, now wants to expand and leave the ground by integrating flying robots (the AR Drone) into the tasks for added interest, fun, and challenge for students.

OpenReco is an open-source photogrammetry and reality-capture platform designed to turn photographs into accurate 3D models, dense point clouds, textured meshes, DEMs, and orthomosaics. Built for researchers, drone operators, surveyors, developers, hobbyists, and digital artists, OpenReco aims to provide a transparent and extensible alternative to proprietary photogrammetry software. The project focuses on ease of use, performance, and reproducible workflows while embracing the open-source ecosystem. OpenReco supports image alignment, camera calibration, sparse and dense reconstruction, mesh generation, texturing, and export to common formats. Whether you're reconstructing archaeological sites, creating digital twins, generating terrain models, or building assets for games and visualization, OpenReco provides a powerful foundation without licensing restrictions.

pilottai is an AI-based autonomous drone navigation system utilizing reinforcement learning for real-time decision-making. It is designed for simulating and training drones to fly safely through dynamic environments using AI-based controllers.

SkyShit Booster Mod Custom FPV Suite for Anafi, Bebop 2 & Disco drones SkyShit FPV Suite is a MacOS application that runs on Apple Computer. Allowing users to receive FPV live feed from all Parrot drones (Anafi, Bebop 2 and Disco) to be displayed on multiple big LCD screens on Mac computer (Please see SSFPV_INSTALL_User_Manual.pdf for supported configurations). SSFPV Suite makes use to the Parrot SDK engine and the supreme graphics performance of modern Mac computer. As a result. The FPV suite becomes the lowest latency and the most responsive FPV applications to all Parrot drones on this planet. The FPV performance of this suite outperforms all iOS and Android FPV flight applications and supports to both SkyController 2 and SkyController 3 thru USB tethering. If you have several 46' LCD TV units connected to a Mac via HDMI or thunderbolt interfaces. This application is a game changer for you and your colleague to enjoy the most luxurious FPV experience on Parrot drones ever.

ar-drone is a Node.js client library for controlling Parrot AR.Drone quadcopters over their network protocol. It provides a high-level API for common flight operations such as takeoff, landing, altitude changes, rotation, directional movement, and hovering. Programs can receive navigation telemetry including flight state, altitude, and other sensor data. Camera output can be accessed as raw video streams or converted into PNG frames through FFmpeg. The library also exposes predefined flight animations, LED sequences, configuration commands, and emergency recovery controls. An interactive REPL lets developers experiment with drone commands directly before building autonomous scripts. Lower-level UDP controls are available for applications that need closer access to the drone's command protocol.

Gym-PyBullet-Drones is an open-source Gym-compatible environment for training and evaluating reinforcement learning agents on drone control and swarm robotics tasks. It leverages the PyBullet physics engine to simulate quadrotors and provides a platform for studying control, navigation, and coordination of single and multiple drones in 3D space.