This was a project I personally drove and delivered on whilst working on Cloudflare. During that time, I ran into a really interesting problem getting it to work on Cloudflare’s complex distributed edge. I try and walk through that debugging story here with some gentle introductions by usage to tcpdump and strace.

The full blog post written by me is here

It’s that time of the year again when I decide to add to my blog. It was my birthday last week and I decided to buy myself a small DJI drone to hack with. I wanted to get something lightweight, cheap and easily replaced. The DJI Tello so far has turned out to be delightfully sufficient for my criteria.

The video is here.

The experiment I set out to do is to have the Tello latch on to a face and follow it. To do this, I needed to be able to: