Parrot drone support is here
3 Jul 2026
Program 3D flight paths and altitude control from the same blocks and JavaScript environment used for ground robots. Students who've already worked through our ground-robot courses will find the transition to flight almost seamless — the same event model, the same sensor blocks, just with an extra axis to think about.
Under the hood, we've added a new drone driver to the robot abstraction layer that talks to Parrot's flight SDK over Wi-Fi. That means takeoff, landing, hover, and waypoint navigation are all exposed as first-class blocks, alongside the camera feed for vision-based challenges.
We've also published a companion unit on flight safety and pre-flight checklists, since a classroom of drones in the air is a very different management problem than a classroom of robots on the floor. Teachers running the Robots course category will see the new Drones module appear automatically — no separate install required.
As always, JavaScript mode is available from day one for classes who want to skip straight to code. We're already planning obstacle-course and search-and-rescue style challenge packs for next term.