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Building Smart Drones with ESP8266 and Arduino

You're reading from   Building Smart Drones with ESP8266 and Arduino Build exciting drones by leveraging the capabilities of Arduino and ESP8266

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788477512
Length 212 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Syed Omar Faruk Towaha Syed Omar Faruk Towaha
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Preface 1. Things to Know Before You Build a Drone FREE CHAPTER 2. Assembling Your Drone 3. Preparing Your Drone for Flying 4. Building a Follow Me Drone 5. Building a Mission Control Drone 6. Building a Drone to Take Selfies and Record Videos 7. Building Prototype Drones – Gliding Drones 8. Building Prototype Drones – Racing Drones 9. Maintaining and Troubleshooting Your Drone 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Connecting the battery

We are almost finished assembling our quadcopter. Now the last part is to connect the battery. As we are using, S500 frame, it comes with a board, where you can connect the battery by soldering the connectors to the board and later just plug the battery while flying the drone. You can use zipties to lock the battery under the body of the copter, as shown in the following figure:

To summarize the connections, let's recap. The BLDC motors will be connected to the four-in-one ESC (or four individual ESCs). The ESCs will be connected to the ArduPilot's output pins (only signal cables, 5V, and ground cables). The power cables of the ESC (or ESCs) will be directly connected to the battery (in our case, we have connected on the body plate first and later used connector pins to be connected to the battery.). The radio and the RC receiver will be connected...

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