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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

Chapter 5. Electronics Installation

In the previous chapter, we went through the soldering procedure for some of the electronics that needed further modifications. Hopefully, at this point all our electronics are ready for installation. In this chapter, we will mount the motors, connect the ESCs to the motors and the PDB, connect the receiver to the flight controller, and finally power up everything with our battery. Note that all the instructions that follow are crucial for your first flight. Read every step with caution and if the result is not what you expected it to be, please be patient and repeat the step.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Motor installation

  • Mounting the propellers

  • Installing the ESCs

  • Powering up