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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

Soldering a T connector


Soldering a T connector is as simple as a banana connector. The only difference is that instead of one you will have to solder two pins; one for the positive and one for the negative wire. This kind of connector is called T because it consists of two pins in the shape of the Greek letter T. It is quite useful for these kinds of connections, since it can safely prevent reversing the connector, which will damage the battery and electrical components.

In the following image, the connector is half connected (male to female). At the left and the right side, we will solder our wires:

First of all, we need to strip two wires (if they are not already stripped) and find out which one is the positive (+) and the negative (-). Note that almost all batteries already have a T connector and you can easily find out the positive and the negative pin. Be careful not to solder it in the wrong order as this will destroy your battery:

Hold your connector with your helping hand and lace...