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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

Bullet connectors


Bullet connectors are going to be used to connect the motors with the ESCs and the T connectors are going to connect the ESCs with the PDB.

It's extremely important to place the correct connector in each component. In every component that is already connected or produces power, we must always use a female connector. We don't want to expose any kind of metal that is connected to power; with this said, we can make the following connections:

  • Female banana bullet connectors to the 3 wires coming from the motors

  • Male banana bullets connectors on the 3 wires coming from the ESC

  • Female T connectors to the wires coming from the PDB

  • Male T connectors to the wires coming from the ESC

Further in this chapter, we will use the following connectors:

  • 12 pairs of 3.5mm bullet connectors

  • 5 pairs of T connectors