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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

Arduino boards


Arduino boards have been very popular. APM and many other flight controllers all run on an Arduino MEGA or other Arduino-like boards. These boards are quite cheap, easy to install and use. The specifications of an Arduino UNO board are as follows:

Arduino UNO specifications

 

Microcontroller

ATmega328P

Operating voltage

5V

Input voltage (recommended)

7-12V

Input voltage (limit)

6-20V

Digital I/O pins

14 (of which 6 provide PWM output)

PWM digital I/O pins

6

Analog input pins

6

DC current per I/O pin

20 mA

DC current for 3.3V pin

50 mA

Flash memory

32 KB (ATmega328P) of which 0.5 KB is used by the bootloader

SRAM

2 KB (ATmega328P)

EEPROM

1 KB (ATmega328P)

Clock speed

16 MHz

Length

68.6 mm

Width

53.4 mm

Weight

25 g

An Arduino UNO board looks like this:

The specifications of an Arduino MEGA board are as follows:

Arduino MEGA Specifications

 

Microcontroller

ATmega1280

Operating voltage...