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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

Motor installation


Depending on your motor, this step may be either simple or very complicated. Generally, you need to make two or four holes at the edge of your frame. That or has a reason to exist.

Some market frames look like this:

These have all the necessary holes that you may need, assuming that your motor has normal dimensions. So, there is nothing more to do than taking a screwdriver and placing some screws over the four motors.

But if you try to mount your motors in wood, aluminium, or some other material that has no holes, you will have to do some more work. Almost all the motors have some specifications on the market from which you have bought them, as shown in the following figure:

So, hopefully, you can find the dimensions of the motors and the exact size and spacing of the holes needed. Either you can make some holes with appropriate tools or buy an external motor mount system, as shown in the following image. The motors usually...