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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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Using a smartphone to enable the Follow Me feature of ArduPilot

You can make your drone follow you if you use a smartphone. Your smartphone already has a built-in GPS, and the drone will follow your phone if properly configured. You will need an OTG connector to connect the telemetry to your phone. Wherever you take your phone, your drone will follow it, as long as the data transmission is good. You can use any of the following two applications (there might be other applications that I have not tested) for this:

DroidPlanner2
Tower

Unfortunately, neither of the applications is available for iPhone (there is the 3DR Solo application for iPhone that can be used to control the on-drone camera by using Wi-Fi and Sidepilot, which is able to configure the drone to Follow Me mode if you use the ArduCopter or 3DR Solo platforms). So, we need to use Android phones. Let's learn how...

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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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