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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

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788477512

Length 212 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Arduino

Concepts

Machine Learning

Author (1):

Syed Omar Faruk Towaha

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Table of Contents (11) Chapters

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

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Assembling Your Drone

In Chapter 1, Things to Know Before You Build a Drone, we were introduced to all the basic components of a drone. In this chapter, we will assemble our drone and make it ready for the next phase.

We will cover the following topics in this chapter:

Assembling the frame
Connecting the motor
Connecting the ESC
Connecting the ArduPilot
Configuring the drone with the ArduPilot
Aerodynamics needed for flying a drone
Knowing security protocols for flying a drone
Preventing the drone from crashing

To begin the process of building the quadcopter, we first need to assemble the frame. So, let's begin with our assembling.

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Authors (1)

Omar Faruk Towaha

Omar Faruk Towaha

Syed Omar Faruk Towaha is a data scientist, and currently working at Meta. He has two bachelor's degrees, one in Physics, another in Computer Science and a Master's in Data Science. He is based in London, England, and has interests in data science and IoTs. While Syed is not busy with his jobs, he uses his time to write something about new technologies. His recent publications include Building Smart Drones With ESP8266 and Arduino, Introduction to Rust Programming, Learning C for Arduino, and JavaScript Projects for Kids.

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