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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)

Photography drones

Taking photos from the sky is one of the most exciting things in photography in the present year. You can shoot from the sky from helicopters, planes, or even from satellites. However, you know that they are not cheap or easy to utilize for taking photos, unless you have a personal air vehicle. If you have ever googled drone photography, I am sure you will definitely want to build or buy a drone for photography, because of the amazing views of the common subjects taken from the sky. If you want to see some drone photography, you can go to the following link: https://www.flickr.com/groups/2199141@N21/pool/.

Taking photos from a drone or making videos is really simple. All you have to do is keep the camera settings in auto mode and fly the drone wherever needed. You can control the drone from the drone controlling software or from the camera application. Just...