The Parrot Bebop and Parrot Bebop 2 are inexpensive quadcopters that can be controlled using their built-in API commands via a WiFi connection. They include a built-in front-facing HD video camera, as well as a second lower resolution bottom-facing video camera.
By default, the Parrot Bebop is a WiFi access point, so there is no additional work to establish a connection to a single drone, you just connect to it.
Once connected, if you want to stream drone video you can either:
- Use the RTP protocol with an external player such as mplayer or VLC.
- Grab the video frames from the drone's data frames, and work with them directly.