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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

GPS Tracker using ESP8266

We will use the following components:

  • NodeMCU (it has a built-in ESP8266)
  • GPS receiver (you can use the Ublox NEO-6M GPS Module)
  • A few cables
  • Power source
  • A smartphone (for the Blynk)

To make the connection, follow the pin configurations with NodeMCU and the GPS receiver:

NodeMCU

GPS receiver

D1

TX

D2

RX

GND

GND

VCC

3V

See the following circuit for clarification:

  1. Now, connect the NodeMCU to the computer and open the Arduino application to program the NodeMCU. Before uploading the code, let's open our Blynk app.
  2. Create a new project, as we discussed in Chapter 3, Preparing Your Drone for Flying.
  3. Remember the authentication code sent to the email address you registered with the app; this will be needed later. In my case, I have set my project name as MY GPS TRACKER, device type as NodeMCU, and connection type...
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