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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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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

Building an Arduino-based Follow Me drone

For this section, you will need the following things:

  • Motors
  • ESCs
  • Battery
  • Propellers
  • Radio-controller
  • Arduino Nano
  • HC-05 Bluetooth module
  • GPS
  • MPU6050 or GY-86 gyroscope.
  • Some wires

Connections are simple:

  1. You need to connect the motors to the ESCs, and ESCs to the battery. You can use a four-way connector (power distribution board) for this, like in the following diagram:
  1. Now, connect the radio to the Arduino Nano with the following pin configuration:
Arduino pin

Radio pin

D3

CH1

D5

CH2

D2

CH3

D4

CH4

D12

CH5

D6

CH6

  1. Now, connect the Gyroscope to the Arduino Nano with the following configuration:

Arduino pin

Gyroscope pin

5V

5V

GND

GND

A4

SDA

A5

SCL

  1. You are left with the four wires of the ESC signals; let's connect them to the Arduino Nano now...
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