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Building Smart Drones with ESP8266 and Arduino

You're reading from   Building Smart Drones with ESP8266 and Arduino Build exciting drones by leveraging the capabilities of Arduino and ESP8266

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788477512
Length 212 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
1. Things to Know Before You Build a Drone 2. Assembling Your Drone FREE CHAPTER 3. Preparing Your Drone for Flying 4. Building a Follow Me Drone 5. Building a Mission Control Drone 6. Building a Drone to Take Selfies and Record Videos 7. Building Prototype Drones – Gliding Drones 8. Building Prototype Drones – Racing Drones 9. Maintaining and Troubleshooting Your Drone 1. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

Assembling the frame


The assembly of the drone frame requires a lot of patience and you are once again advised to follow the instruction manual when doing it for the first time. For reference, in this book, we will assemble a drone frame from HobbyKing (S500). Inside the box, you will get the items displayed in the following picture:

These items are listed here:

  • Four frame arms (two blue and two black, if you buy the blue color)
  • Four leg plates
  • Two rods for the base mount
  • One top plate
  • One bottom plate for mounting the power lines
  • And a lot of screws

Firstly, see the following figure and connect the parts as shown here:

Use a proper screwdriver to tighten the screws. Do not keep any screws untightened or tilted.

Let's connect the motors now.

Connecting the motors

To connect the motors, you need to place the motor on the frame arm and attach the screws, as shown in the following figure, making sure you tighten the screws as much as you can, without breaking the frame arm:

The BLDC has three wires coming...

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Building Smart Drones with ESP8266 and Arduino
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ISBN-13: 9781788477512
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