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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 8. Cameras and Extra Functions

You should take time to learn how to fly and land your quadcopter. As soon as you add a high cost camera or any other equipment, you have to be able to avoid crashing again. Apart from the camera, there are a lot of extra things that you can add to your craft. Each of them should have a specific reason to exist but it is obvious that your craft's functionality is limitless. In this chapter, we will go through some basic components that you can add to your craft to do some more advanced tasks. Each of the following extra components can be used to capture photos or add a failsafe mechanism. Understand that almost everything in the following list has some weight. Weight is the worst nightmare for an aerial craft. So, if you are going to use any of them, be sure that you really need . The worst case scenario is to have a quadcopter whose weight is more than the thrust that all your motors can provide. There is no way to lift this craft. But even if you...