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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

Servo mechanism


A servo is a mechanical system that rotates from 0 to 180 degrees. To help you understand the power of the servo mechanism, let's have a look at a common servo and where and how can we use it.

The preceding image is of a simple servo. Usually, a servo consists of two or three different plastic modules that we can easily change according to our goal. The servo is connected with 5V to any device like an Arduino board or most of the flight controllers that support a servo.

You have to identify the servo you bought and connect the wires in the right order according to the preceding image.

One or two servos can be used to create a simple DIY grabber at the bottom of the craft. A servo goes from 0 to 180 degrees, so it's quite simple to create a mechanism similar to this. Furthermore, we can use it to trigger various dropping mechanisms.