#652 Building Smart Drones with ESP8266 and Arduino

Book notes: Building Smart Drones with ESP8266 and Arduino: Build exciting drones by leveraging the capabilities of Arduino and ESP8266, by Syed Omar Faruk Towaha. Published February 27, 2018.

Notes

See also:

• amazon
• goodreads
• https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Building-Smart-Drones-with-ESP8266-and-Arduino
• https://www.packtpub.com/en-us/product/building-smart-drones-with-esp8266-and-arduino-9781788476928

Contents

• Things to Know Before You Build a Drone
  • Things to Know Before You Build a Drone
  • Drone
  • Types of motors used for drones
  • Radio transmitter and receiver
  • Battery
  • Battery adapters/chargers
  • Connectors
  • Some modules to make the drone smarter
  • Summary
• Assembling Your Drone
  • Assembling Your Drone
  • Assembling the frame
  • Connecting the RC receiver and transmitter
  • Connecting the battery
  • Binding transmitter to the receiver
  • Know the aerodynamics needed for flying a drone
  • Saving your drone from crashing
  • Check things before flying
  • Check the security protocols for flying a drone outside
  • Summary
• Preparing Your Drone for Flying
  • Preparing Your Drone for Flying
  • What is ESP8266?
  • Downloading and installing APM Planner or Mission Planner
  • Configuring the quadcopter
  • Summary
• Building a Follow Me Drone
  • Building a Follow Me Drone
  • What is a Follow Me drone?
  • Using a smartphone to enable the Follow Me feature of ArduPilot
  • Building an Arduino-based Follow Me drone
  • GPS Tracker using ESP8266
  • Summary
• Building a Mission Control Drone
  • Building a Mission Control Drone
  • Surveying with a drone
  • Using drones and delivery man
  • Some other tweaks with the Flight Plan screen
  • Summary
• Building a Drone to Take Selfies and Record Videos
  • Building a Drone to Take Selfies and Record Videos
  • Photography drones
  • Requirements
  • Assembling the photography drone
  • Controlling the camera
  • Flying and taking shots
  • Controlling the camera gimbal using ESP8266
  • Summary
• Building Prototype Drones – Gliding Drones
  • Building Prototype Drones – Gliding Drones
  • What is a glider?
  • How a glider glides
  • Let’s build our own glider drone
  • Summary
• Building Prototype Drones – Racing Drones
  • Building Prototype Drones – Racing Drones
  • Racing drones
  • Avoiding obstacles using ESP8266
  • Summary
• Maintaining and Troubleshooting Your Drone
  • Maintaining and Troubleshooting Your Drone
  • Safety of the drone
  • Be careful about the battery
  • Storage of the drone
  • Carrying a drone
  • Before and after flight safety
  • Respect the law and privacy
  • Troubleshooting your drone
  • Diagnosing problems using logs
  • Radio control calibration problem
  • Summary
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