You've assembled your quadcopter and you can now control it via the BeagleBone Black. But there is still a LAN cable connected to your BeagleBone Black, which will make it difficult to fly very far. This section will show you how to get rid of that cable so that you can control your quadcopter without any wires.
One of the easiest ways to do this is to communicate with the BeagleBone Black on your quadcopter via wireless LAN. If you are using this technique, you'll need to configure a wireless access point for your BeagleBone Black quadcopter to connect to. There are several possible choices:
You can use a wireless router as an access point to communicate between a computer and the BeagleBone Black on your quadcopter. To do this, simply connect a standard wireless router to the computer, and then configure it as a wireless access point using the directions for your specific router.
You can configure a laptop computer as an access point to communicate...