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Building Smart Drones with ESP8266 and Arduino

By : Syed Omar Faruk Towaha
Book Image

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)

Binding transmitter to the receiver

Binding is really important. Without proper binding, you cannot configure the drone's actions properly. You can bind your transmitter with at least the following things. Note that the binding process differs from the RC Receiver's model to model. The steps of the most common method is as follows:

  • A binding cable
  • An ESC
  • A servo motor (or you can use a BLDC motor too, but it is too risky; I don't recommend it while binding the transmitter to the receiver)
  • A battery

Firstly, connect the binding cable to the RC receiver on the BAT pin, as follows. In some models, the BAT pins might be known as B/VCC:

Now, take an ESC and connect the signal, 5V, and ground pin to the CH1 pins.

Remember, the outer pin of a row is for the ground, the middle pin is for 5V, and the inner pin is for the signal.

Connect the battery to the ESC. The ESC...