See the installation instructions.
You can use DroneAPI with either a physical vehicle (pixhawk, Iris, etc...) or a simulated vehicle. For instructions on using our simulator see this link.
These demos build on each other, so it is best to start with demo 0 and after you work through that move on to the next demo. As you experiment with these demos it is probably helpful to refer to the python API documentation.
This basic 'hello-world' demo will show you how to connect to a vehicle and receive some basic information.
The next demo builds on what you learned in demo zero, to actually tell the vehicle to go someplace.
Building on the basic vehicle control you just learned, we now show how to write a small web application that allows you to command a drone to fly to a particular location.
This demonstration teaches you the basics of using the webservice and the local vehicle API to 'replay' a flight which has been uploaded to Droneshare.
This demonstration illustrates how to work with existing Linux services (gpsd) to add a new drone based feature.