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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

Installing the ESC


Each ESC must be connected to a motor, the flight controller, and the PDB. Connect the three wires of each ESC to the three wires of each motor randomly. You might have connected them wrong, but it's ok. We will test this later and fix it if needed.

Depending on the flight controller you have, you must connect the four servo wires in the right position. The flight controller that we will use is APM v2.8 and you can find the following figure on the official website of ArduPilot.

Lastly, the power distribution board, or PDB, must have four female T connectors and one male. Plug in the four female connectors to each ESC and leave the male for the battery. The battery is the last component that should be connected.