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Building a Quadcopter with Arduino

By : Vasilis Tzivaras
Book Image

Building a Quadcopter with Arduino

By: Vasilis Tzivaras

Overview of this book

<p>Quadcopters, also known as quadrotors, are gaining more and more popularity in today's world. With the help of these devices, anyone can have an “eye in the sky” and can monitor any place at any time. You can capture photographs and once a while and perform automated tasks. In this book, you will be informed about all the basic modules and electronics needed to fly a simple quadcopter. You’ll delve deep to create a fully-functional quadcopter quickly with the help of Arduino boards. Through this book, you’ll develop the skills needed to build a DIY drone that can capture pictures and record videos.</p>
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Building a Quadcopter with Arduino
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Future potential


Quadcopters can also save lives! After an earthquake or the collapse of a building, which might cause significant destruction, the response time to search and locate trapped survivors is crucial. Mini and fast quadcopters equipped with cameras can fly among the debris in a safe, cheap, and effective way and locate survivors quickly.

Another scenario worth looking at is people drowning in a sea or lake. Every year, the percentage of accidents is almost the same but now quadcopters can change that. There is already an idea of a quadcopter equipped with three buoys and able to release them over three possible targets. The quadcopters will be fully remote controlled by a pilot that overviews the whole mission. So, in each mission a quadcopter will be able to increase the probability of a rescue.

Lastly, quadcopters are excellent aerial vehicles for transportation of low weight cargo. They can be deployed easily in rough areas or big cities. There is a huge need for a speedy vital organ transportation system in various areas, particularly in Africa where the cost of transportation by road is high and extremely difficult.