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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

Summary


All the electronics that we saw must be mounted with caution. Many hobbyists get excited with the idea of flying and make grave mistakes at this step, such as connecting the power to the ground and the ground to the power. As a result, they burn their electronic parts. Be patient and if something doesn't make sense to you, look it up on Google. To conclude, at this point we have mounted the motors on the frame, the propellers on the motors, and connected our ESCs to the motors and the flight controller.

In the next chapter, you will learn how to setup your ArduPilot flight controller and connect everything together before making your first flight.