Comment by baddox
11 years ago
Or, for a more challenging (though more dangerous and probably less useful) project, make the head tracking control the pitch, roll, and yaw of the quadcopter directly. With altitude hold functionality (a lot of flight controllers implement this with a barometer, though not the DJI Phantom) you could have completely hands free flight.
I had thought of this, then I wondered, why not have head movement do both? That is, have the camera pan/tilt/roll in sync with your head and also shift the plane on the same axis. That way you could know which way was centered (looking out over the nose of the craft), and immediately see where you'd be headed when the turn completed.
There's a chap who got a Parrot AR Drone flying like this - they're quite simple to control with arbitrary devices via node.js and nodecopter. Fun proof of concept.