Thank you mate! It's a iterative process over quite a few years as a side project. Things mostly come by one by one.

Is an FPV controller any different than a regular video game controller? I interested in how hard it is to fly a drone even in a sim environment.

You can also use your keyboard or the virtual joystick if you are on a touch screen!

> Looks promising, but what's the signup wall for?

Major turn off for me as well. Instant No.

Thank you mate!

I was looking into the MCP route too, and found some libraries abstracting mavlink for this use case (there’s at least one white paper documenting failure modes of LLMs trying to issue mavlink commands without an abstraction), but realized that autopilot like PX4 exists. My use case was more about autonomous flight, and it seemed better to just set waypoints and put some guards on other inputs. When paired with QGroundControl plans, all I needed to do for most flight paths was generate or update a .plan file using an LLM and other methodologies. I wasn’t super happy with the QGroundControl -> Gazebo rendering (no tie into real world terrain out of the box), but it did sort of work out of the box without too much effort!

It's sad to see drones being used in wars! But maybe the way to combat that is to power everyone with it, then nobody dare to step out to do anything sketchy with it like nuclear weapons.