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Building Smart Drones with ESP8266 and Arduino

By : Syed Omar Faruk Towaha
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Building Smart Drones with ESP8266 and Arduino

By: Syed Omar Faruk Towaha

Overview of this book

With the use of drones, DIY projects have taken off. Programmers are rapidly moving from traditional application programming to developing exciting multi-utility projects. This book will teach you to build industry-level drones with Arduino and ESP8266 and their modified versions of hardware. With this book, you will explore techniques for leveraging the tiny WiFi chip to enhance your drone and control it over a mobile phone. This book will start with teaching you how to solve problems while building your own WiFi controlled Arduino based drone. You will also learn how to build a Quadcopter and a mission critical drone. Moving on you will learn how to build a prototype drone that will be given a mission to complete which it will do it itself. You will also learn to build various exciting projects such as gliding and racing drones. By the end of this book you will learn how to maintain and troubleshoot your drone. By the end of this book, you will have learned to build drones using ESP8266 and Arduino and leverage their functionalities to the fullest.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Assembling the frame

The assembly of the drone frame requires a lot of patience and you are once again advised to follow the instruction manual when doing it for the first time. For reference, in this book, we will assemble a drone frame from HobbyKing (S500). Inside the box, you will get the items displayed in the following picture:

These items are listed here:

  • Four frame arms (two blue and two black, if you buy the blue color)
  • Four leg plates
  • Two rods for the base mount
  • One top plate
  • One bottom plate for mounting the power lines
  • And a lot of screws

Firstly, see the following figure and connect the parts as shown here:

Use a proper screwdriver to tighten the screws. Do not keep any screws untightened or tilted.

Let's connect the motors now.

Connecting the motors

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