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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

Assembling the photography drone

Take out your frame and connect the parts together, as directed in the manual. However, I have a few suggestions to help you to carry out a better assembly of the frame:

  1. Firstly, connect the motor mounted with the legs or wings or arms of the frame. Tighten them firmly, as they will carry and hold the most important equipment of the drone. Then, connect them to the base and, later, the other parts with firm connections.
  2. Now, we will calibrate our ESCs. We will take the signal cable from an ESC (the motor is plugged into the ESC; careful, don't connect the propeller) and connect it to the throttle pins on the radio. Make sure the transmitter is turned on and the throttle is in the lowest position.
  3. Now, plug the battery in to the ESC and you will hear a beep. Now, gradually increase the throttle from the transmitter. Your motor will start spinning...
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