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Building Smart Drones with ESP8266 and Arduino

By : Syed Omar Faruk Towaha
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Building Smart Drones with ESP8266 and Arduino

By: Syed Omar Faruk Towaha

Overview of this book

With the use of drones, DIY projects have taken off. Programmers are rapidly moving from traditional application programming to developing exciting multi-utility projects. This book will teach you to build industry-level drones with Arduino and ESP8266 and their modified versions of hardware. With this book, you will explore techniques for leveraging the tiny WiFi chip to enhance your drone and control it over a mobile phone. This book will start with teaching you how to solve problems while building your own WiFi controlled Arduino based drone. You will also learn how to build a Quadcopter and a mission critical drone. Moving on you will learn how to build a prototype drone that will be given a mission to complete which it will do it itself. You will also learn to build various exciting projects such as gliding and racing drones. By the end of this book you will learn how to maintain and troubleshoot your drone. By the end of this book, you will have learned to build drones using ESP8266 and Arduino and leverage their functionalities to the fullest.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Troubleshooting your drone

Your drone may have some problems when you fly it regularly or if you have just started piloting a drone. This can be because of maintenance or accidents. So, we need to troubleshoot and fly our drone safely. In this section, we will look at a few common troubleshooting tips.

My drone tries to flip or flip when I turn it on

This problem may occur for several reasons. Check if you calibrated your ESCs. Are your propellers balanced? Have you configured the radio properly? Are your ArduPilot's sensors working properly? Have you checked all the wire connection? Have you calibrated the drone frame? Have you added the wrong propellers to the wrong motors (for example, clockwise propellers to anticlockwise...