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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

Powering up


Now that everything is connected together, there is only one thing left. Place the battery near the PDB and connect the two T connectors with caution. Note that at this point your quadcopter is not ready to fly at all. You have to pass the calibration and the pre-flight testing list before you can actually fly your vehicle. The point here is just to make sure that everything is working.

A well-built quadcopter should have beeps from the ESCs and a red-black LED blinking at the flight controller. If you can hear the beeps and see those LEDs, you did a great job!