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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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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

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

Radio control calibration problem

For the ArduPilot, the default channel mappings are as follow:

  • Channel 1: Roll
  • Channel 2: Pitch
  • Channel 3: Throttle
  • Channel 4: Yaw
  • Channel 5: Flight modes
  • Channel 6: Optional; it can do multiple things

To start the radio calibration, you need to remove the propellers from the drone and connect the ArduPilot via USB to the computer. Then turn on the RC transmitter. Your receiver will display a solid green light if the transmitter is bound to the receiver.

Fire up the Mission Planner and go to Initial Setup | Mandatory Hardware | Radio Calibration. Now, if you move the gimbals and knobs of the RC receiver, you can see the green bars moving. To start calibration, click the Calibrate Radio button and hit OK.

You need to move the control sticks (the gimbals we control using our thumbs) and toggle all the buttons and turn on and off the knobs to the...

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