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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)

Connecting the RC receiver and transmitter

The RC transmitter allows the drone pilot to control the drone wirelessly. It would be silly to fly a drone with a wire in the sky, so connecting the Radio Controlled (RC) transmitter is a must for a drone.

The RC transmitter sends signals and the receiver receives the signal. The RC transmitter is also known as the TX and the RC receiver is known as the RX. Before discussing about the RC receiver, let's know the transmitter first.

Basically, the transmitter is the remote controller of the drone. Before choosing a perfect transmitter, you need to consider a few things, such as the number of channels, the modes, and the frequency technology, and so on.

I would suggest you buy a good transmitter because this is the least thing that is destroyed while flying drones.

The number of channels gives you the ability to control how many individual...