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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)

Some other tweaks with the Flight Plan screen

You can select the waypoints from the WayPoint panel, as shown before. When you select a waypoint, the latitude and longitude are added to the waypoint. It means the drone will follow the position and go there by following the shortest path algorithm. We can do some actions on the location points by changing the command from the WayPoint panel. Please try them yourself and let me know what happens and which command you liked most.

Communicating with the drone via the ESP8266

In this chapter, we have successfully delivered a package to a place by using our mission control drone. But mission control needs to be aware of the weather and the environment for a successful flight and...