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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)

Saving your drone from crashing

You hardly can prevent your drone from crashing and breaking some of the propellers, or even the body. The damage will depend on the crash and the height it falls from. It will also depend on the surface your drone lands on or crashes.

The best place to fly a drone is open fields where there are no trees or any electrical wires hanging. Do not uplift the drone with high throttle at first, increase the throttle gradually. We will know about safe throttling later. For now, you can use the Stabilize mode first. Just remember, throttle is nothing but speeding up the velocity of the propellers of the drone. If you are a beginner, my suggestion is to learn how you can levitate your drone above the ground. Once you master hovering the drone, increase the throttle a little bit. Practice more with that high. Increase the height gradually. Then, start doing...